Mixed lace doily

Titles: Mixed lace doily (Supplied title)

Description: A mixed lace doily made with linen thread, possibly Ojibwe or Dakota, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. The linen center has mixed lace edging consisting of tape work in leaf and floral motif, joined by needle made turtle braids, spiders, wheatears and mesh fillings. The border is scalloped with attached picot edging. Collected by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.

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

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1954

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

• 11 1/2 inches length
• 10 3/4 inches width

Subjects

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