Dakota mixed lace edging

Titles: Dakota mixed lace edging (Supplied title)

Description: A piece of mixed lace edging made with linen thread, Dakota, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. The piece features tape work with needle made spiders, braids and net filling. The bottom scalloped edge features an attached picot edging.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1890 - Approximately 1926 (Sybil Carter began developing the Episcopal Church lace manufacturing work with American Indians in Minnesota in 1890. The lace program continued well after Carter’s death in 1908 and eventually dissolved in 1926.) (Creation)

Creation

• made by: Jones, Jeanette
• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1953

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 99 inches length
• 4 inches width

Subjects

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