Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Piece cream lace used for demonstration purposeshandcrafts, lacemaking

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Cream lace piece used for demonstration purposeshandcrafts, lacemaking

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Piece of cream lace used for demonstration purposesFriedrich Seidel, G. m b. H. Plaven I. V. No A11704 5 7-2handcrafts, lacemaking

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Piece of cream lace used for demonstration purposesFriedrich Seidel, G.m.b. H. Plaven , I. V. No. A11705 7 7-4handcrafts, lacemaking

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Piece of cream lace used for demonstration purposeshandcrafts, lacemaking

Fine lace used as a costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Fine lace used as a costume trimmingNeedle lace edging. Sample

Fine lace used as costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Fine lace used as costume trimmingFine needle lace edging

Very fine old Mechlin lace used as a costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

A black silk lace used as a costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Very fine lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Use: Fine lace used as costume trimming.Bobbin lace edging. Sample

Very fine old Flemish lace. Use - Fashion trimming or ecclesiasticalBobbin lace Flouncing

1 single bed flat white heavy cotton sheet with lace border at the topIdrija lace border, with special stitch (žur) line, initial MG for Marcela Gec, Marcela maiden name

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Cream Guipere lace piece used for demonstration purposeson display stand ' C. R. Eichhom Plauen I. V.handcrafts, lacemaking

Part of a travelling salesman's lace samples from Plauen, East Germany, a lace making town since 13th Century.Piece cream Guipere lace used for demonstration purposeson display stand ' C. R. Eichhom Plaven I. V.'handcrafts, lacemaking

Use: Domestic. Household trimming A heavy linen laceBobbin lace edging. Sample

From donor's grandmotherCream lace braid on Black card with gold lettering Novelty Braid.Novelty Braid Warranted 12 Yards. Art 1lace

Elizabth Nan Warner was a retired schoolteacher who travelled with her husband Max to Europe and China. Joined Lace Making Group 1970, 1980's. Lappet(collar) Brussels Duchess lace with needle lace insertselizabeth nan warner, lace collector/maker

Tape lace in the making. The lace is incomplete and still attached to the backing cloth. It is shaped - possibly as an edging for a tray cloth. Home made or hobby lace.Tape lace edging. Incomplete. Machine made tapes with needle made fillings.

American lace loom. Victorian substitute for the usual lace maker's cushion.Lace making pillow consisting of a round cylinder with wooden handle containing a green lace pattern pricking and blue velvet pillow holding 32 wooden bobbins wound with cotton hanging from the pattern pricking.handcrafts, lacemaking

Very fine linen thread. Fine lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

A Guipure lace, having a bar background. Fashion item. Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

Part of McNamara CollectionBronze lace piece.Nillace, machine made, bronze colour

The Fashion & Design collection of Kew Historical Society includes examples of textiles dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the textiles, were used as items of clothing, others as items of household decoration, or simply as travel souvenirs. These textiles were created both domestically and internationally. Predictably with the growth of an ethnically and culturally more diverse community in Kew after the Second World War, textiles, clothing and objects in the collection inevitably reflected this diversity. Cream lace collarlace, women's clothing, collars

Lace collar - accessory owned and worn by a member of the Piesse family of Kew. Later owned by Margaret Hollis (nee Piesse) of Castlemaine.Lace collarcollars -- lace

Part of the McNamara collectionLace 'Peter Pan' collar with cotton binding.lace, collar

Fine needle lace use as costume trimming. The detail image shows typical tiered rose petals.Needle lace border

Mrs John Draffin was the wife of a Shire President of Orbost Shire Council. She is reported to have made this lace herself. The design might have been copied from a book of laces.Associated with the wife of an early resident of Orbost who was Shire President. A large white cotton lace collar, roughly rectangular in shape, made from tape lace and with decorative infills. This collar is very pretty and beautifully made. tape-lace lace-collar women's-clothing