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Wide Bobbin Lace Border Made in China
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This sample of handmade torchon bobbin lace has motifs with diamond shapes, tallies, spiders and fans with braids. It was made at the Amoy Lace Guild in China and sold for twentyfive cents per yard in US gold in 1913. 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 lineWide Bobbin Lace Border Made in China. 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.
