Object Details
- designer
- Lefebure, Ernest
- designed and made by the workshop
- Lefébure, Ernest
- 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Marie Taveau, 1975
- 1855-1900
- ID Number
- TE.T17893A
- catalog number
- T17893A
- accession number
- 319013
- Object Name
- lace
- lace, collar
- Object Type
- Collar
- lace
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- horsehair (outline material)
- Measurements
- neck edge: 33 cm x 11 cm; 13 in x 4 11/32 in
- place made
- France: Normandie, Bayeux
- designed at
- France: Normandie, Bayeux
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Clothing & Accessories
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Lace
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Lace
- Cotton
- Adornment
- Cotton
- Horsehair
- Needle Lace
- Record ID
- nmah_633969
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-7c3b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
