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Lace > Lace borders

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+ H3762 Lace length, (2 pieces), Valencien...
+ H3762-2 Lace length fragment, Valencienn...
+ H3763 Lace length, Valenciennes border, ...
+ H3764 Lace lengths, (2), Honiton style l...


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H3761 Lace length, Mechlin border, bobbin made, [linen], Flanders/Belgium, [1835-1850] (OF). French Flanders, 18th century, specially fine Mechlin, pillow made (SB).
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Object statement
Lace length, Mechlin border, bobbin made, [linen], Flanders/Belgium, [1835-1850] (OF). French Flanders, 18th century, specially fine Mechlin, pillow made (SB).

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Description
Border with scalloped and serrated headside and picots

Pattern
Repeating floral spray, arranged in 2 staggered rows along the headside. The sprays along the outer edge are extended to fill the scallops. Regular arrangement of floral dots elsewhere, all in mesh ground.

Technique
The solid areas of the design are worked in half stitch or cloth stitch outlined with a gimp thread.
The fillings are either a single tally in a variation of Flemish filling (Cook and Stott p13) or an arrangement of tallies within: similar to H5111-17. (diagram overleaf)
The ground is plaited 4 times and twisted twice.

A machine lace engrelure has been stitched along the footside and across one end.
Made: 1835 - 1850
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
H3761
Production date
1835 - 1850
Width
138 mm
Depth
580 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1934

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
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