Le Puy lace sample
This sample of Le Puy lace was collected by lace historian Frances Bury Palliser. It is a narrow bobbin lace with heavy chenille thread. Le Puy in France had a flourishing lace trade at the time that A History of Lace was published (1864). Le Puy laces were exported in quantity to Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy and England. Bury Palliser commented on the variety of laces made there: silk, thread, worsted, gold, silver, and novelties like this piece.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 28/2006/274
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- Le Puy lace sample
- Simple Name
- lace sample
- Production County
- Le Puy
- Production Country
- France
- Production Year High
- 1869
