Milanese Bobbin Lace Border Picturing the Goddess Diana
date: label: date made
content: 1650-1700
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This Milanese style bobbin lace border depicts Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, with her dog. It was probably made in Flanders early in the 18th century. The delicate motifs are executed with bobbin made decorated tapes in fine linen thread. The connecting mesh is decorated with regularly spaced square tallies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Flanders
topic: label: general subject association
content: Lace
label: general subject association
content: Lace Making
label: used
content: Linen
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: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Wm. M. Kingsland, 1909
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E252705
label: accession number
content: 49730
label: catalog number
content: E252705
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, fragment
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 3/4 in x 7 1/8 in; 67.945 cm x 18.0975 cm