Border
1600-1620 (made)
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The technique of cutwork used to make this piece of lace was the creation of a delicate structure of needle lace stitches across the spaces cut in a fine linen ground. It reached the height of its popularity in the late sixteenth and early seventeeth century, when it was used to decorate every type of linen and in particuar to draw attention to the face and throat in the form of collars and ruffs. This short length of border may well have been part of a collar.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cutwork and needle lace |
| Brief description | Scalloped lace border, needle lace, Italy, about 1600-25 |
| Physical description | Scalloped border, in cutwork and needle lace, linen thread. |
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| Summary | The technique of cutwork used to make this piece of lace was the creation of a delicate structure of needle lace stitches across the spaces cut in a fine linen ground. It reached the height of its popularity in the late sixteenth and early seventeeth century, when it was used to decorate every type of linen and in particuar to draw attention to the face and throat in the form of collars and ruffs. This short length of border may well have been part of a collar. |
| Bibliographic reference | Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Clothing the New World Church. Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2021, p. 211 |
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| Accession number | T.275-1912 |
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| Record created | May 17, 2005 |
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