Honiton (East Devon) lace sample (trimming)
Cream coloured cotton thread has been used to work this Vandyke style trimming with a purl edge. The design incorporates stylised flowers, leaves and other shapes, and is worked in wholestitch and rib. Most have these have one side worked to emphasise a rib edge or have been made with an additional coarse thread. The sprigs are joined by purl bars and the traditional East Devon fillings used are ‘straight pin’, ‘no pin’ and ‘diamond’.
This East Devon lace trimming is part of a collection of samples of British and Continental lace put together by Charlotte Treadwin, an important lace manufacturer with a business based in the Cathedral Yard, Exeter. The collection was donated to the museum in the late 1860s for lace-makers and designers to study. Treadwin once stated that there was not a single lace-designer in the whole of Devon, and strove to improve this, employing an artist to draw out her designs, and studying samples to better inform her practice and experimentation with lace-making patterns and techniques. By 1869, the lace manufactory and showrooms were already based at 5 Cathedral Yard (now known as the Cathedral Close).
This East Devon lace trimming is part of a collection of samples of British and Continental lace put together by Charlotte Treadwin, an important lace manufacturer with a business based in the Cathedral Yard, Exeter. The collection was donated to the museum in the late 1860s for lace-makers and designers to study. Treadwin once stated that there was not a single lace-designer in the whole of Devon, and strove to improve this, employing an artist to draw out her designs, and studying samples to better inform her practice and experimentation with lace-making patterns and techniques. By 1869, the lace manufactory and showrooms were already based at 5 Cathedral Yard (now known as the Cathedral Close).
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 29/2006/128
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- Honiton (East Devon) lace sample (trimming)
- Simple Name
- lace sample
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Charlotte
- Production Person Surname
- Treadwin (nee Dobbs)
- Production Year Low
- 1840
- Production Year High
- 1860
