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Lace Doily1712/4

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by six petal-like shapes, surrounded by a two-row band of crocheted small holes, surrounded by four inward facing butterflies, surrounded by an outer scalloped edge of twelve scallops. Raised design as dots on butterflies.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/2

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by eight petal-like holes, surrounded by eight crocheted triangles, surrounded by sixteen half circle holes. The outer design is consisting of eight tree-like shapes with inward facing stems. Outer periphery is irregularly circular with protruding crocheting loops, particularly edging the pattern which is between the tree-like designs.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or rayon fibre ?
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/12

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a densely crocheted circle at the centre with an overlay of eleven inward pointing triangular designs around the periphery, surrounded by looser crocheting, surrounded by dense crocheting. The outer band is of looser crocheting forms that has very small outer scallops all around.

Culture
Swedish ?
Material
plant fibre
Made in
Sweden ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/1

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by eight petal-like holes, surrounded by eight crocheted petal-like shapes with eight five-sided holes at the outer sections of these petals. Then more loosely crocheted design around the outer circumference, which is circular with sixteen crocheted protuberances, each made of three crocheted loops.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or rayon fibre ?
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Curtain1712/37

A rectangular lace curtain. Entire background is consisting of small open squares over which, there are embroidered designs. Central rectangle has a main design consisting of small square dots alternating with a few four-part squares. From the inner to the outer border, the designs are as follows; a narrow band of dashes that have four-part squares attached; an open area that has four-part squares; a wide band depicting flowers in pots; a band of four-part squares connected with a line; an open area that has four-part squares; a narrow band of dashes that have four-part squares attached. Scalloped lace edging.

Culture
English
Material
cotton fibre ?
Made in
United Kingdom and Nottingham, England
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1714/5

A hand made oval lace doily. The main abstract design is consisting of a central four-part plant, surrounded by a narrow band linking to a flower at each end with four open flowers. This is surrounded by an oval design of thirty-two flowers with raised centres. The same design of small flowers with raised centres divides the doily into four sections as parts of ovals, each containing a flower. The four areas between these sections are filled with an identical flower.

Culture
Belgian
Material
cotton fibre and flax fibre ?
Made in
Belgium
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Table Runner1714/3

A woven rectangular light brown-white fabric piece. Has a simple four-dot-petalled flower like pattern bordered by two bands that each have vertical stripes..

Culture
Swedish
Material
cotton fibre and flax fibre ?
Made in
Sweden
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Table Mat1714/2

A rectangular off-white cloth. Has a small open-work border with four open work square designs, one in each corner. There is a rectangular open work design in the centre.

Culture
Swedish
Material
flax fibre, starch and cotton fibre
Made in
Sweden
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/32

A hand made oval lace doily. The main abstract design is consisting of a central plain machine made cloth with the hand made surrounding outer edge consisting of a band with a row of holes, surrounded by a zig zag band containing a six-petallled flower at each of the two ends of the oval, surrounded by four sections of a band, each containing a four-petalled flower with a leaf stretching sideways at either side. Between this four-sectioned band, there are four six-petalled flowers. An airy design of zig zag, squares, and triangles forms an outer edge of eight elongated oval scallops each containing an uneven solid shape.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or flax fibre ?
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/31

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central six-petalled flower design, surrounded by a band of two rows of holes, surrounded by an airy design of square-like shapes that has six bug-like shapes with six four-petalled flowers within, surrounded by a band of two rows of holes, surrounded by an airy design that has eight inward facing butterflies with eight thin four-petalled flowers in between the butterflies within, surrounded by a scalloped outer perimeter edge of twenty-four petals.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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