Tatted Lace Collar
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1861
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This tatted lace collar is formed of 76 joined tatted medallions, each one inch in diameter, and is executed with two-ply cotton. Tatting is a knotting technique using one or two tatting shuttles to form rings and chains. The motifs are joined at the small loops called picots. According to the donor this was tatted before the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Cotton
label: Subject
content: Lace
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Caroline Wolfley Shannon, 1937
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08132A
label: catalog number
content: T08132A
label: accession number
content: 145752
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tatting
label: Object Name
content: tatting, collar
label: Object Name
content: tatting, lace, collar
label: Object Type
content: tatting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tatting (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, neckedge: 13 1/2 in x 3 in; 34.29 cm x 7.62 cm