Bayeux Tapestry Motifs Needle Lace Runner
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1910
name: label: designer
content: Melville & Ziffer
label: maker
content: Melville & Ziffer
notes: label: Description
content: This needle lace table runner illustrates scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry. Scenes before, during and after the Battle of Hastings, England, in 1066 between Harold and William the Conqueror are depicted along the sides and ends of this nine meter long cloth. It might have been commissioned for the banquet table in one of the numerous grand mansions built in the USA early in the 1900’s. The Melville and Ziffer lace workshop in Le Puy, France, exhibited an almost identical table runner at the 1906 Paris World Exhibition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Le Puy
topic: label: used
content: Cotton
label: general subject association
content: Lace
label: general subject association
content: Lace Making
label: Subject
content: Needle Lace
label: related event
content: Battle of Hastings, 1066
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Lace
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Gewirz, 1985
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0162.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0162
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0162.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tablerunner
label: Object Name
content: lace, tablerunner
label: Object Name
content: lace
label: Object Name
content: tablecover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: needle lace (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 362 1/2 in x 43 in; 920.75 cm x 109.22 cm