Quaker Lace Co. "Oxford Cross Net" multicolor lace length, 1926
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: Quaker Lace Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Quaker Lace Co. "Oxford Cross Net" length, 1926. Cotton net yard goods made on a craft-lace curtain loom in open square mesh. Produced by omitting every third warp. Width on the machine is 45" and 8 breadths are made at one time. The design, in solid squares, is taken from an old Bohemian cotton print made in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia. The colors - orange, gold, and black, are identical with the original fabric. 1 sample.
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, Philadelphia, PA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05435.000
label: catalog number
content: T05435.000
label: accession number
content: 92197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lace, machine-made
label: Object Name
content: machine made lace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: machine-made lace; curtain net (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: 45" wide