Blackberry lace pricking
The note on this pricking might refer to patterns for a dress made for Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV. Queen Adelaide supported the Devon lace industry in the 1820s after the distressed lace-makers petitioned the Queen. She famously ordered a dress of sprigs mounted on machine-made net from Mrs Davey of Honiton. According to Frances Bury Palliser, ‘the skirt was encircled with a wreath of elegantly designed sprigs, the initial of each flower forming the name of Her Majesty.’
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 132/1972/94/3/2
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Material
- parchment
- Common Name
- blackberry lace pricking
- Simple Name
- lace prickings
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
