Gold, Silver and Silk Bobbin Lace and Embroidery Panel
date: label: date made
content: early 17th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This panel is embellished with bobbin lace and silk embroidery. The woven center is decorated with embroidery, drawn thread work and needle weaving. It is bordered with gold and silver (?) bobbin lace insertions and edging. The lace is worked with threads made of strips of metal foil wrapped around an un-spun silk core in an S-twist, indicating 17th century. The salmon colored satin stitch silk embroidery alternates with the same geometric motif in gold foil wrapped silk thread. There is a tassel in one corner and the remnant of a tassel in the opposite corner.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: general subject association
content: Lace
label: general subject association
content: Lace Making
label: used
content: Silk
label: general subject association
content: metalworking
label: used
content: Embroidery
label: Subject
content: Bobbin Lace
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Lace
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0121.43
label: accession number
content: 2013.0121
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0121.43
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace, panel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace (border production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (lace material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (lace material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 62 in x 43 in; x 157.48 cm x 109.22 cm