Alençon needle lace border
Alençon needle lace border
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- Description (Brief)
- Alençon needle lace border, Louis XV style with horsehair through the outside picots. The border has dense natural floral motifs
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Lace
- lace, border
- Object Type
- lace
- date made
- 1700-1725
- Physical Description
- linen (overall material)
- horsehair (through outside picots material)
- needlelace, alençon (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 in x 4 3/4 in; x 71.12 cm x 12.065 cm
- ID Number
- TE.L7408
- catalog number
- L7408.000
- accession number
- 53829
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Julian James, 1912
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Lace
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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