Milanese Style Bobbin Lace Valance
date: label: date made
content: 1660-1690
notes: label: Description
content: This border is constructed with Milanese style bobbin lace. The slender meandering scrolls resemble scrolling vines with flowers and leaves. A variety of fillings decorate the flowers and leaves, including raised edges and tallies. The motifs are connected with double, braided bars with picots. The edges are original, made as part of the lace.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Lace
label: general subject association
content: Lace Making
label: used
content: Linen
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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: Miss Emily Tuckerman Aug 11, 1924
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.L7331A
label: catalog number
content: L7331.00A
label: accession number
content: 83674
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lace
label: Object Type
content: lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bobbin lace, Milanese (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 186 in; x 24.13 cm x 472.44 cm