Design for Honition lace
Lace dealer Charlotte Treadwin was concerned that lace-makers were not trained to draw or design since ‘lace designing is not much understood at the School of Art’. It is likely that the Exeter School of Art student who drew this design had never made lace.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 40/1929/19
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Common Name
- design for Honition lace
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
