Needle and Bobbin Club Flounce at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Short article from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club describing an early eighteenth-century Brussels bobbin lace flounce that the Club gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its fiftieth anniversary in 1920. It gives the flounce's dimensions, the mesh types and techniques (toilé, grillé, cinq trous, brides picotées, braided relief work), and a description of its garden design with a fountain, birds, trees and flowers. It also speculates on how the lace was originally used. A halftone photograph of the flounce is included.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1920
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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