Framed bobbin lace panel, "Mother & Child", 1968
date: label: date made
content: ca 1968
notes: label: Description
content: One 1968 Prague-purchased bobbin lace piece, framed: "Mother & Child". Framed and glazed. 24 ¼” L x 11 ¼” W. Linen bobbin lace mounted on paper. Purchased by Rita J. Adrosko in Prague, (then) Czechoslovakia, in 1968 from a local craft shop “Krásná Jizba” in the city. 3 colors of linen thread, undyed and bleached; depicting stylized figure of woman holding a child with a bird in its hand. Three dimensional lace work forming details of the costume and faces.
label: Description
content: Rita Adrosko was for many years a curator in the Division of Textiles, MHT/NMAH. Her donations to the collection document her own work as a textile designer and scholar of woven textiles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Czechoslovakia
label: place made
content: Czechoslovakia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rita J. Adrosko
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0320.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0320
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0320.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bobbin lace panel
label: Object Name
content: panel, bobbin lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall (framed): 24 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 61.595 cm x 28.575 cm