Lace pillow with accessories

Object/Artifact

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Lace pillow with accessories

Entry/Object ID

2025.9.93

Description

Lace pillow composed of a wood frame with bolster pillow and oval flat pillow, both covered with dark red silk or synthetic velvet attached with brass tacks. Paper pattern and unfinished band of off white linen lace wrapped around bolster and held in place with silver tone metal pins, with wood bobbins of various styles attached. Also includes a box full of additional bobbins, some wrapped with linen thread, and a bag containing a pin pricked pattern, skeins of linen thread, and additional bobbins and other tools.

Category

Tools, Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2025.9

Source or Donor

Brooklyn Museum

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown maker

Time Period

Late 19th-Early 20th Century

Place

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

lace pillows

Dimensions

Dimension Description

pillow: 6 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 15 in. (17.1 × 47.6 × 38.1 cm) box of bobbins: 3 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (9.5 × 24.8 × 18.4 cm) materials in bag (approx.): 7 × 5 × 3 in. (17.8 × 12.7 × 7.6 cm)

Parts

Lace pillow (including wood frame, bolster pillow, oval flat pillow); paper pattern; unfinished band of linen lace held in place with pins; bobbins of various styles; box of additional bobbins; bag containing a pin pricked pattern, skeins of threads, and additional bobbins and tools.

Material

Wood, Silk, Metal, Paper, Linen

Color

Red

Location

Box

Box 2 (Brooklyn Museum Collection)

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio