Gold, Silver and Silk Bobbin Lace and Embroidery Panel
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Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- This panel is embellished with bobbin lace and silk embroidery. The woven center is decorated with embroidery, drawn thread work and needle weaving. It is bordered with gold and silver (?) bobbin lace insertions and edging. The lace is worked with threads made of strips of metal foil wrapped around an un-spun silk core in an S-twist, indicating 17th century. The salmon colored satin stitch silk embroidery alternates with the same geometric motif in gold foil wrapped silk thread. There is a tassel in one corner and the remnant of a tassel in the opposite corner.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt
- early 17th century
- ID Number
- 2013.0121.43
- accession number
- 2013.0121
- catalog number
- 2013.0121.43
- Object Name
- lace
- lace, panel
- Physical Description
- bobbin lace (border production method/technique)
- embroidery (overall production method/technique)
- silk (lace material)
- silk (fabric material)
- metal (lace material)
- Measurements
- overall: 62 in x 43 in; x 157.48 cm x 109.22 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England
- Associated Place
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Lace
- Domestic Furnishings
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Lace
- Lace Making
- Silk
- metalworking
- Embroidery
- Bobbin Lace
- Record ID
- nmah_1442763
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-e0e6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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