TABLECLOTHS (SET OF TWO)
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Two square ecru teacloths in a patchwork of bobbin and needle lace. The edge of the cloth is in needle lace diamonds joined with buttonholed picots. Above the edge is fine bobbin lace in a stylized leaf and flower design joined in a bell shape. At each corner is a panel in heavy Venise-type needle lace in a daisy design with cut sections of Vieux Flandre mixed bobbin and needle lace in an overall scrolling design. In the center of the cloth is a square of needle lace flowers surrounded by bobbin lace in a bell shaped pattern accented with flowers.
- Object name:
- TABLECLOTHS (SET OF TWO)
- Made from:
- Lace
- Made in:
- Bruges, Belgium
- Date made:
- unknown
- Size:
- 48.8 × 48.8 cm (19 3/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.85.1-2
- Class:
- TEXTILE
- Signature marks:
- label No. 48 / 2 - 1yd. 24" X 1 yd. 23-1/2" / Tea cloths / 23 Napkins (2 out of 2) on tissue wrapped around objects typed on paper label with handwritten annotations to last line note Brown spot / to be. removed / before using with objects handwritten note in ink on scrap of paper note Gus / washed / 1988 / By J.M. on cloth Note from Gus Modig noting that these were washed by Jennie Matson. label FOR MRS. ROBERTSON # 48 on paper around cloths First three words have been crossed out with pencil
- Credit line:
- Gift of Eleanor Close Barzin, 1974