Cluny bobbin lace dress collar

NameDress collar

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Date1890-1920

Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America

Mediumcotton?

Dimensions12 × 12 in. (30.4801 × 30.4801 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Helen West Pynn, A.2016.54.

Object numberA.2016.54.3

Collections

United States and Canada

DescriptionMade and worn by the donor's grandmother Elizabeth West, sometime during the 1890s-1920s. Both pieces would have been created using a bobbin pillow and pins to help create the characteristic Cluny-style leaf shaped tallies (sometimes called wheatears). The lace is formed from tallies and woven areas/tapes connected by a bar ground.