Point d'Angleterre lappet, matching TE.L6544B, includes matching border for cap. Bobbin lace motifs applied to droschel bobbin lace ground. Round ends on the lappet
Art nouveau style bobbin lace collar for a dress or coat. Collar made with cluny style bobbin lace with raised tallies. Very narrow. Elongated rose motifs in V shapes.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lord Lakeman, who was born 1767 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died 1862 in Hallowell, Maine used this pillow, pattern and bobbins to make bobbin lace most of her life. Mrs. Lakeman most likely made Ipswich lace in the late 1780's and 1790's during the peak of the Ipswich lace industry. The pillow is stuffed with sea-grass or straw and the parchment pattern has holes pricked for the lace. The bobbins are whittled from bamboo, other reeds, or wood. The current pattern and lace on the pillow are from around 1860.
This round tablecloth is decorated with the American and Belgian shields, and the Whitlock family crest. Mr. Brand Whitlock was the American envoy and later ambassador to Belgium from 1914 to 1921. Mrs. Brand Whitlock worked tirelessly on behalf of the Belgian lace makers during World War I.
The center of the tablecloth is Old Flanders style bobbin lace with needle lace ground. The same lace pattern is used in TE*T14468A and TE*T14468B. A wide border of point de Venise style needle lace surrounds the four shields. Belgian lace makers made this tablecloth during World War I.
Valenciennes continuous bobbin lace border with a pattern of birds in two and a half inch long repeats. Made during the transition between round and square mesh. The lace has been cut from a wider piece and hemmed at both sides with narrow bobbin or machine made tapes. Illustrated in "Pillow Lace" by Mincoff and Marriage, 1907, p. 42 with extra width. (Erroneously?) described as Louis XV.