EDGING
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
An ecru Gros Point de Venise needle lace edging. The main body has flowers and leaves as the design with heavy fillings. The bars connecting the designs have picots. The needle egrelure or footing is the original as the older ones are usually of a series of crossed bars demonstrated by this one. One end of the edging is finished with a straight buttonholed line while the other end is cut. The bottom edge of this piece is a narrow needle scallop edge with alternating three and five loops.
- Object name:
- EDGING
- Made from:
- Linen
- Made in:
- Unknown
- Date made:
- Late 17th c.
- Size:
- 24.8 × 182.9 cm (9 3/4 × 72 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.429
- Class:
- Lace
- Signature marks:
- Handwritten on tissue In blue ink in Mrs. Post's handwriting- From Grandmas Trunk/San Anton Texas. Folded in the edging
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973