Alençon Needle Lace Collar
Alençon Needle Lace Collar
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- Description
- Grape and vine motifs with shadow effect decorate this cotton Alençon lace collar from the late 19th century. Horsehair is used to support picots on the outside edge and on some interior motifs. The entre-deux at the neck edge is made with Droschel bobbin lace. It is attributable to the Lefébure workshop, Bayeux, France, and the pattern for this collar is in Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, France. See Bruggeman, Kant in Europa, (L'Europe de la Dentelle), 1997 p. 169, and Dépalle, Brigitte Delesques, La Dentelle à l'aiguille, p. 81. It matches cuffs or borders TE*T17893B and TE*T17893C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lace
- lace, collar
- Object Type
- Collar
- lace
- date made
- 1855-1900
- designer
- Lefebure, Ernest
- designed and made by the workshop
- Lefébure, Ernest
- place made
- France: Normandie, Bayeux
- designed at
- France: Normandie, Bayeux
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- horsehair (outline material)
- Measurements
- neck edge: 33 cm x 11 cm; 13 in x 4 11/32 in
- ID Number
- TE.T17893A
- catalog number
- T17893A
- accession number
- 319013
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Marie Taveau, 1975
- subject
- Lace
- Cotton
- Adornment
- Cotton
- Horsehair
- Needle Lace
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- Clothing & Accessories
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Lace
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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