Border
1850s (made)
This lace border is from the Animal Products collection put together by the Royal Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It illustrates how successfully machine lace could copy fashionable, hand-made lace.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Machine made silk lace |
| Brief description | machine lace, 1850s, English? |
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| Summary | This lace border is from the Animal Products collection put together by the Royal Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It illustrates how successfully machine lace could copy fashionable, hand-made lace. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | AP.399:3 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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