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1850 / 1859
- Identifier
- AP.399:3
- Collection
- Technique
- Embroidery 99%
- Embroidery 80%
- Embroidery 92%
- Depiction
- Vegetal motif 60%
- Vegetal motif 53%
- Vegetal motif 60%
- Dimension
- 18 cm (height)18.5 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- India 35%
- France 40%
- United Kingdom 100%
- United Kingdom 100%
- United Kingdom 51%
- Type of object
Description
machine lace, 1850s, English?
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.
