Border with Attached CRB Label
Border with Attached CRB Label
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- Description
- This Alençon needle lace border was made by Belgian lace makers during World War One. A white cord at one end of the lace attaches a metal label used by the Commission for Relief in Belgium (C.R.B.) to ascertain authenticity as made for the CRB. A narrow machine-made lace is added to the side that will be sewn unto a garment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- border
- war lace
- lace
- made during
- 1914-1918
- Associated Date
- 1914-1918
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- distributor
- Hoover, Lou Henry
- maker
- unknown
- place made
- Belgium
- made at
- Belgium
- Physical Description
- needle lace, Alençon (overall production method/technique)
- linen (overall material)
- cotton (machine made edge material)
- Measurements
- lace: 1 3/8 in x 78 in; 3.4925 cm x 198.12 cm
- metal label:.3 cm x 1.2 cm; 1/8 in x 15/32 in
- ID Number
- 2013.0121.19
- accession number
- 2013.0121
- catalog number
- 2013.0121.19
- Credit Line
- transfer from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- subject
- Lace
- Lace Making
- European History
- World War I
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- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Cultures & Communities
- Clothing & Accessories
- Art
- Lace
- War Laces
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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