Quaker Lace curtain material: Shantung Net, 1926
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: Quaker Lace Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sample of Quaker Lace curtain material: Shantung Net, 1926. Cotton net yard goods made on a craft-lace curtain loom, 360" wide. Seven breadths of this net are woven at one time. Small allover pattern of circles and squares produced by a weave inspired by the earliest hand-drawn (meaning withdrawn thread openwork) linens. Used as a background for decorative embroidery work as well as for curtains. Color: Dark Egyptian (Ecru)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Lace
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Quaker Lace Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05438.000
label: catalog number
content: T05438.000
label: accession number
content: 92197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lace, Machine
label: Object Name
content: machine-made lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: machine lace; curtain net (overall production method/technique)