Lace pillow

Object/Artifact

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Name/Title

Lace pillow

Entry/Object ID

2025.9.98

Description

Lace pillow with wood frame and bolster pillow, and flat slanted pillow stuffed with straw and covered with grey-brown cotton or linen. Assembled with metal nails. Paper pattern and unfinished off white linen lace wrapped around bolster pillow and pinned in place, with various bobbins attached; bobbins partially tied down by off white cotton tape tied to proper left side. Assorted loose bobbins and related tools in well below bolster pillow. Stamped or printed hand motif and partial illegible letter on interior face of well, possibly from wood's former use.

Category

Tools, Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2025.9

Source or Donor

Brooklyn Museum

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown maker

Date made

1909

Place

City

Aguadilla

Country

Puerto Rico

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Puerto Rico

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Label

Location

Handwritten tag on frame

Transcription

Lace Pillow for making Torchon Lace / From Hyde Aguadilla, Porto Rico / 1909

Language

English

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

lace pillows

Dimensions

Dimension Description

8 1/4 × 10 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (21 × 27.6 × 31.8 cm)

Material

Wood, Straw, Likely Cotton, Linen, Paper, Metal

Color

Brown