Border

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Textiles

c. 1660

Spain

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Border
Place: Spain (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1655–1665
Medium: Gilt-and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, silk-wrapped-animal-substrate strips, and gilt-metal-wire-wrapped animal substrate, bobbin straight lace
Dimensions: 17.7 × 115.3 cm (7 × 45 3/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 11 cm (4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior, Mrs. Arthur Kelly, Mrs. Alva W. Phelps, Mrs. Peter McKinney, Mrs. John J. Bransfield, Jr., and the 1993 Silk Worm Travel Group
Reference Number: 1993.225
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Margaret Simeon. The History of Lace (London: Stainer & Bell, 1979), pp. 59-60, pl. 64.
Santina M. Levey. Lace: A History (Great Britain: Victoria & Albert Museum and W.S. Maney & Son Limited, 1983), fig. 233.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Twenty Years of Textile Society Collecting (1987–1998), December 20, 1997–March 22, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, The Magic of Lace, June 27, 2001–June 9, 2002

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