Mixed lace insertion

Titles: Mixed lace insertion (Supplied title)

Description: A mixed lace insertion made with linen thread, possibly Ojibwe or Dakota, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. It has tape work joined by needle made spiders and braids. 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: 1963

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

• 107 inches length
• 1 1/4 inches width

Subjects

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