Large collar, Point de France needle lace with personages, Louis XIV style. Cut and made into collar 4th quarter of 19th century. The collar is edged with scalloped needle lace at the outer edge and narrow bobbin lace at the inner edge.
This sample of handmade Chinese made torchon bobbin lace edging is labeled as costing “$.45 per yard in US gold” and is made of linen. It was acquired from the Amoy Lace Guild, Amoy (Xiamen), China, through Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce in 1913. The Amoy Lace Guild was established by missionaries in 1885 as a charitable organization to provide a source of income to indigent Chinese women and children. Patterns and linen thread was imported from England and Ireland. Lace from the Amoy Lace Guild won a silver medal at the St. Louis exposition in 1904. This sample has tallies, spiders, half stitch trails, and Spanish fans
Valenciennes square mesh continuous bobbin lace border in 19th Century stylistic open floral design The pattern repeat is four and a half inches long. Separate picot edge and sewing edge have been whipped on.
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.