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Amoy Lace Guild Bobbin Lace Sample
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This sample of handmade torchon style bobbin lace edging has roseground and leaves arranged as spokes and a scalloped edge. It was made at the Amoy Lace Guild in China and sold for twenty-five 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 lineAmoy Lace Guild 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.
