Augusta-Virginia Banner Panel
date: label: made during
content: 1915-1918
name: label: described
content: Mitchell, Augusta Virginia
label: designer of center motif
content: de Rudder, Maria
notes: label: Description
content: This square panel with a Point de Venise needle lace center depicts cherubs holding a banner with the inscription “AUGUSTA-VIRGINIA”. The donor’s mother Augusta Virginia Mitchell owned the lace. Her daughter, the Vicomtesse de Beughem, was one of four women in charge of the Lace Committee during World War I and possibly commissioned it for her mother.
label: Description
content: Another possibility for the Augusta-Virginia inscription might be to honor the 116th Infantry Regiment from Augusta, Virginia, who fought in the battle of Meuse-Argonne, France in November 1918.
label: Description
content: The center is designed by the Belgian painter Maria de Rudder and symbolizes the children of Holland sprinkling the Belgian children with flowers of abundance. For the matching pillow sham see TE*T14468B. Both were made by Belgian lace makers during World War I.
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: Subject
content: World War I
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
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 Mrs. Lewis Einstein and her sister Vicomtesse de Beughem
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14468A
label: catalog number
content: T14468A
label: accession number
content: 276575
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: decorative panel
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: needle lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: bobbin and needle lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 56 in; 142.24 cm x 142.24 cm