Battenburg Lace Collar
date: label: date made
content: 1899
notes: label: Description
content: A battenburg lace collar made about 1899 by Mrs. McChesney and worn by Mrs. Lillian M. Keneaster (Oct 1866 – July 23, 1913). Battenburg lace is a tape lace. Loops of even-width, woven tape are formed and basted to a pattern. Secondly, wherever the tape crosses itself, tiny stitches are made to hold it together. Lastly, decorative filling stitches are used in the open spaces created by the tape. It has been stated that Battenburg lace was first created when Queen Victoria of England named her son-in-law as the first Duke of Battenburg in the late 1800s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Lace
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Elsie Keneaster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E339748
label: catalog number
content: E339748.000
label: accession number
content: 99597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, collar
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 40 in; 15.24 cm x 101.6 cm