Lace

Object number2008.105.5

Date1960-2008

MediumCotton; metal

Credit LineGift of Antonella Di Ianni

DescriptionRectangular cotton blue cloth. Attached to top: sixteen strips of white cotton lace. Each strip of lace is connected to blue base with one or two metal straight pins. Handmade.Dimensions10.375 x 21.75 in. (26.4 x 55.2 cm)
Historical NotesSet of cotton lace strips which display the progression of donor Antonella Di Ianni's designs with bobbin lace. Donor came to Pittsburgh in 1959 and worked for Horne's Department Store as a seamstress. She has worked as a master lacemaker in the Pittsburgh area, having learnt the craft when she was a young girl in Italy. Part of a collection related to the Italian folk art practice of lacemaking or bobbin lace, as practiced in the town of Pescocostanzo, Abruzzo, Italy. An immigrant from Italy, donor Antonella Di Ianni used these tools to make lacework as taught to her by her mother and grandmother.

Related institution Joseph Horne Company (1849 - 1994)

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