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- Date
- 1820 – 1850
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0026
- Description
- One very delicate guipure lace mat. Guipure is a lace in which the patterns are held in place by connecting threads rather than attached to mesh or net ground, as in filet lace. The doily has a quadrifoliate shape of four large scallops with four smaller scallops between each of the large scallop…
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- Title
- Table Throw
- Date
- 1820 – 1850
- Material
- fibre, cotton
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 49.0 cm
- Description
- One very delicate guipure lace mat. Guipure is a lace in which the patterns are held in place by connecting threads rather than attached to mesh or net ground, as in filet lace. The doily has a quadrifoliate shape of four large scallops with four smaller scallops between each of the large scallops. The center of the doily has four star shaped flowers. The outside edge of the doily is also scalloped.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- crafts
- needlework
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0026
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- Date
- 1860 – 1900
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0193
- Description
- A panelled, hemmed piece of cloth. Faded dusty rose ground with gold, ivory, and pale green-blue embroidered adornment on it in the form of four pointed starbursts. A strip of herringbone embroidery at one seam edge. Was originally in three panels before being seamed together. Where a lamp or vase…
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- Title
- Table Throw
- Date
- 1860 – 1900
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 83.0 x 85.0 cm
- Description
- A panelled, hemmed piece of cloth. Faded dusty rose ground with gold, ivory, and pale green-blue embroidered adornment on it in the form of four pointed starbursts. A strip of herringbone embroidery at one seam edge. Was originally in three panels before being seamed together. Where a lamp or vase has sat on it, fading has been inhibited, revealing the original darker rose colour.
- Subject
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0193
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