Point lace lappet
A pair of lappets would be worn on the head attached to a cap and would hang down the back of the neck as ‘streamers’. this lace was made for the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 29/2006/132
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collector Excavator
- Treadwin, Mrs Charlotte (from the collection of)
- Material
- cotton
- Common Name
- point lace lappet
- Simple Name
- lappet
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1851
- Production Person Initials
- Charlotte
- Production Person Surname
- Treadwin