Lacemaker bobbin lace pillow with bobbins and paper patterns

Titles: Lacemaker bobbin lace pillow with bobbins and paper patterns (Supplied title)

Description: A bobbin lace making pillow and paper patterns, possibly used by Dakota or Ojibwe women, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. Wood base padded with natural fiber stuffing and coved with tan cotton fabric. Paper lace pattern pinned to pillow with metal pins with lace in progress. Ten wood bobbins hang from work, wound with linen thread. Collected by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1860 - Approximately 1901 (Date range based on time Bishop Whipple spent in Minnesota working for various government commissions for Indian Affairs) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1971.A-O

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: 14 items

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 18 3/4 inches diameter
• 6 1/4 inches length (paper lace pattern)
• 4 inches width (paper lace pattern)
• 4 inches length (bobbins)

Subjects

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