Ardoye Orphanage Tablecover
date: label: made during
content: 1915-1918
label: part of design
content: 1915
name: label: facilitator
content: Hoover, Herbert
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This round linen table cover contains the inscription “1915 ARDOYE - KLOOSTER DER H. KINDERSHEID VAN JESUS – WEESKINDEREN” (1915 Ardoye - Convent of the Holy Childhood of Jesus - Orphans) in the center. Ardoye (Ardooie) is in West Flanders, Belgium, in the area where the German army used poison gas for the first time on the western front in the second battle of Ypres in 1915.
label: Description
content: The table cover is centered with bobbin lace. Bruges flower lace as well as tape lace and braided mesh techniques were utilized by the Belgian lace makers, who made this during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
label: name part of design
content: Belgium: Flanders, Ardooie
topic: label: web subject
content: Lace
label: web subject
content: Orphanages
label: web subject
content: European History
label: used
content: Cotton
label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: War Laces
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kellogg, Charlotte (Hoffman). Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools and Lace-Villages
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E383962
label: catalog number
content: E383962
label: accession number
content: 172208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: table topper
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (mat material)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in; 71.12 cm