Bayeux Tapestry Motifs Needle Lace Runner
Object Details
- designer
- Melville & Ziffer
- Melville & Ziffer
- Description
- This needle lace table runner illustrates scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry. Scenes before, during and after the Battle of Hastings, England, in 1066 between Harold and William the Conqueror are depicted along the sides and ends of this nine meter long cloth. It might have been commissioned for the banquet table in one of the numerous grand mansions built in the USA early in the 1900’s. The Melville and Ziffer lace workshop in Le Puy, France, exhibited an almost identical table runner at the 1906 Paris World Exhibition.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Gewirz, 1985
- 1900-1910
- ID Number
- 1985.0162.01
- accession number
- 1985.0162
- catalog number
- 1985.0162.01
- Object Name
- tablerunner
- lace, tablerunner
- lace
- tablecover
- Physical Description
- linen (overall material)
- needle lace (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 362 1/2 in x 43 in; 920.75 cm x 109.22 cm
- place made
- France: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Le Puy
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Family & Social Life
- Lace
- Art
- Domestic Furnishings
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Cotton
- general subject association
- Lace
- Lace Making
- Subject
- Needle Lace
- related event
- Battle of Hastings, 1066
- Record ID
- nmah_650216
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-04cc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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