Woman's black bobbin lace jacket. It is short, loose-fitting, slightly flared with a round neck and straight front opening without fastenings. It has three quarter length, bell-shaped sleeves. The sleeves are set into the jacket but, apart from this, the jacket and the sleeves are made without seams. The lace was made in shaped strips and joined invisibly. There are 'slits' to allow for fullness over the hips at each side and also along the upper edge of each sleeve. The lace, which is made with matt black silk, is of the Chantilly type. It is decorated with a typical Chantilly design of delicate floral sprays and with denser borders of flower heads and leaves within a geometric framework. The pattern is worked entirely in half stitch on a twist-net ground and is outlined with a black silk gimp thread.