Binche lace sample
Mrs Bury Palliser has dated this sample of Flemish lace to the seventeenth or eighteenth century. She collected this piece as an example of a fine bobbin lace, either Valenciennes or Binche. The design used variations of the snowflake ground combined with elegant scrolls of foliage and flowers.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 28/2006/157
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- Binche lace sample
- Simple Name
- lace sample
- Production County
- Flanders
- Production Country
- Belgium
- Production Date
- 18th
