Ardoye Orphanage Tablecover
Ardoye Orphanage Tablecover
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- Description
- This round linen table cover contains the inscription “1915 ARDOYE - KLOOSTER DER H. KINDERSHEID VAN JESUS – WEESKINDEREN” (1915 Ardoye - Convent of the Holy Childhood of Jesus - Orphans) in the center. Ardoye (Ardooie) is in West Flanders, Belgium, in the area where the German army used poison gas for the first time on the western front in the second battle of Ypres in 1915.
- The table cover is centered with bobbin lace. Bruges flower lace as well as tape lace and braided mesh techniques were utilized by the Belgian lace makers, who made this during World War I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lace
- table topper
- war lace
- Object Type
- lace
- made during
- 1915-1918
- part of design
- 1915
- facilitator
- Hoover, Herbert
- maker
- unknown
- place made
- Belgium
- name part of design
- Belgium: Flanders, Ardooie
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- linen (mat material)
- bobbin lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 in; 71.12 cm
- ID Number
- TE.E383962
- catalog number
- E383962
- accession number
- 172208
- Credit Line
- Gift of Vicomtesse de Beughem
- subject
- Lace
- Orphanages
- European History
- Cotton
- World War I
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- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Family & Social Life
- War Laces
- Lace
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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