1855 / 1865, Caen

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1855 / 1865, Caen

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Identifier
T.180-1991
Acquisition
Given anonymously
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Dimension
146 cm (length)
5.5 cm (width)
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Description

Dress trimming border of blond silk bobbin lace with small white flowers stamped out on woven fabric, possibly cotton. The lace has been worked as a very open mesh with some outlining in gimp thread. One edge is straight and the other scalloped. The fabric flowers have been sewn alternately to the points and the centres of the scallops. Dress trimming border of silk bobbin lace, possibly made in Caen or Bayeux, 1855-1865