Floral lace pricking
Honiton lace is made using a pricking as a guide. This is a piece of thin card or thick paper with pin holes pricked through it. It is secured to the pillow and as the design is worked pins are placed into the holes to hold the growing lace in place and determine its shape.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 28/2006/663/1
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collector Excavator
- Bury Palliser, Frances (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- floral lace pricking
- Simple Name
- pricking
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
