Dakota battenberg lace table cover

Titles: Dakota battenberg lace table cover (Supplied title)

Description: A Dakota Battenberg lace linen table cover, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. The table cover has a circular net center with Battenberg lace edging. Tape work is joined with needle made spiders and eyelets with needle made buttonhole stitch and mesh fillings. Made at the lace school of the Bishop Whipple Mission, Morton, Minnesota.

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: 2002.153.2

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of Ms. Maxine Eidsvig

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 18 inches length
• 15 3/4 inches width

Subjects

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