Isidore de Rudder Designed Pillow Top
date: label: made during
content: 1915-1918
label: part of design
content: 1915
label: part of design
content: 1914
name: label: facilitator
content: Hoover, Herbert
label: designer
content: de Rudder, Isidore
notes: label: Description
content: This pillow top was designed by the Belgian sculptor Isidore de Rudder (1855-1943). The design of starfish, crabs, and eels in seaweed with the central inscription “1914 Yzer 1915” commemorates a famous battle at the Yzer River, where Belgian engineers prevented the German troops from advancing by manipulating the locks on the Yzer River to flood the surrounding fields.
label: Description
content: This pillow top in point de Venise style needle lace was made by Belgian lace makers during World War I. The pattern is preserved in the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium
topic: label: web subject
content: Lace
label: web subject
content: European History
label: used
content: Cotton
label: related event
content: Battle of the Yser
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: Art
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum
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.E383966
label: catalog number
content: E383966
label: accession number
content: 172208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: pillow top
label: Object Name
content: war lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: needle lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 16 in; 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm