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Chinese Made Torchon Bobbin Lace Sample
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This is a sample of handmade Torchon bobbin lace border made at the Amoy Lace Guild Factory in China. The price was five cents a yard in US gold. The Amoy Lace Guild was established by missionaries in 1885 as a charitable organization to provide a source of income to indigent Chinese women and children. Patterns and linen thread was imported from England and Ireland. Lace from the Amoy Lace Guild won a silver medal at the St. Louis exposition in 1904.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineChinese Made Torchon Bobbin Lace Sample. 1905-1912. Amoy Lace Guild. National Museum of American History, Amoy Lace Guild, Amoy, China, through Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce.1913. CC0.
