Lace

Museum number:
2-62985a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210262985a@2dc
Alternate number:
4076 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
All three pieces of lace are mounted together on one piece of hemmed linen. A. Curved fragment of Irish lace. Has white roses, with picoted [A series of small embroidered loops forming an ornamental edging] bridges scalloped bottom edge. B. Irish lace, probably a white; shamrocks and roses, deeply scalloped bottom edge. C. Irish lace medallion white “life saver” and shamrock design, scalloped edge. B has neck stains.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Linen (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lace (needlework)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 1 inches and length 28 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Lace, accession number 2-62985a-c, described as All three pieces of lace are mounted together on one piece of hemmed linen. A. Curved fragment of Irish lace. Has white roses, with picoted [A series of small embroidered loops forming an ornamental edging] bridges scalloped bottom edge. B. Irish lace, probably a white; shamrocks and roses, deeply scalloped bottom edge. C. Irish lace medallion white “life saver” and shamrock design, scalloped edge. B has neck stains.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lace, accession number 2-62985a-c, described as All three pieces of lace are mounted together on one piece of hemmed linen. A. Curved fragment of Irish lace. Has white roses, with picoted [A series of small embroidered loops forming an ornamental edging] bridges scalloped bottom edge. B. Irish lace, probably a white; shamrocks and roses, deeply scalloped bottom edge. C. Irish lace medallion white “life saver” and shamrock design, scalloped edge. B has neck stains.

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