Pattern
ca. 1900 (made)
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Lace pattern with five designs. One border including a corner, and three insertions to decorate linen in imitation of 16th century cutwork. The patterns were intended to be worked with bobbins and are clearly marked with pin-holes for picots, solid clothwork and wheat ears. The fifth pattern is for a bobbin lace border including a corner probably to be worked in plaits with slight picot decoration. Four of the designs are marked 'DISEGNO GONDI'. The sheet is printed in black on green paper, and labelled 'Scuola Coop. Brazza proprieta Artistica Riservata'.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed paper |
| Brief description | Lace pattern with five designs printed on paper, made at the Lace School of Brazza, Udine, ca. 1900. |
| Physical description | Lace pattern with five designs. One border including a corner, and three insertions to decorate linen in imitation of 16th century cutwork. The patterns were intended to be worked with bobbins and are clearly marked with pin-holes for picots, solid clothwork and wheat ears. The fifth pattern is for a bobbin lace border including a corner probably to be worked in plaits with slight picot decoration. Four of the designs are marked 'DISEGNO GONDI'. The sheet is printed in black on green paper, and labelled 'Scuola Coop. Brazza proprieta Artistica Riservata'. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Fey Pirzio-Biroli |
| Object history | Registered File number 1985/652. Part of a set of patterns given to the Museum T.164 to B-1985. The finished lace is shown on xerox number 1. Included in the gift are 38 pages of xeroxed photographs of examples of Brazza lace. |
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| Accession number | T.164-1985 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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