Lace Border Fragment

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1860-80

Belgium or France

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Lace Border Fragment
Places: Belgium (Object Probably made in), France (Object Probably made in), Western Europe (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1860-1879
Medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace
Dimensions: 15.6 × 87.8 cm (6 1/8 × 34 1/2 in.); Repeat: W.: 7.5 cm (3 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Yvonne L. D. Pryor in memory of her mother, Alma Peniston Le Duc
Reference Number: 1937.634
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Melinda Watt, “Fragmentary Understanding: Textiles in the Encyclopedic Museum,” in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 99, fig. 7 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

Yvonne L. D. Pryor, Chicago, by 1937 [R of O 6753, Nov. 15 1937; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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