Lace pillow with accessories

Object/Artifact

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Lace pillow with accessories

Entry/Object ID

2025.9.92

Description

Lace pillow with wood frame and spool and semicircular pad covered with green wool, probably stuffed with sawdust; dark blue wool twill wrapping and pricked paper pattern attached to spool, with silver tone metal pins and wood bobbins wrapped with off white linen thread; separate sample fragment of red and off white linen or cotton tape with attached bobbins pinned to pad; additional silver tone metal pins in pad. Also includes group of five pricked paper patterns, group of assorted wood bobbins, and a ball of red cotton thread.

Category

Tools, Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2025.9

Source or Donor

Brooklyn Museum

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown maker

Time Period

19th Century

Place

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

lace pillows

Dimensions

Dimension Description

pillow: 5 1/2 × 18 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (14 × 46.4 × 29.2 cm) smallest square with pricked border pattern: 3 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (9.5 × 9.8 cm) largest rectangle of pricked border pattern: 1 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (4.8 × 39.4 cm) bobbins and thread (approx.): 2 × 8 × 2 in. (5.1 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm)

Parts

Lace pillow; dark blue wool twill wrapping and pricked paper pattern attached to spool, with silver tone metal pins and wood bobbins wrapped with off white linen thread; separate sample fragment of red and off white linen or cotton tape with attached bobbins pinned to pad; additional silver tone metal pins in pad. Also includes group of five pricked paper patterns, group of assorted wood bobbins, and a ball of red cotton thread.

Material

Wood, Wool, Paper, Linen, Cotton

Color

Green, Blue, Red

Location

Box

Box 1 (Brooklyn Museum Collection)

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio