Border with Motifs and Inscription
date: label: made during
content: 1914-1918
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This border has motifs of women, men, windmills, and trees. Below the figures is the Flemish saying “MYN VADERLAND IS MYN DUURBAARSTE PAND” (My homeland is my most cherished possession) worked into the lace. This Lille type bobbin lace features a nine-inch long pattern repeat and a picot edge. It was designed for the Dutch market for edging their bonnets. Both ends are finished with a narrow Mechlin bobbin lace border with floral motifs outlined with gimp. The lace was made by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
label: place made
content: Belgium: Flanders, Beveren
topic: label: web subject
content: Lace
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: War Laces
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
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.T14227
label: catalog number
content: T14227
label: accession number
content: 273245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: border
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Name
content: lace, war lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, Beveren, Mechlin (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 64 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in; 163.83 cm x 7.3025 cm