Lace edging
This lace edging may have been used to trim a dress, and is notable for its American patriotic design of spread eagles and shields.
Published ReferencesMaria Cotterell Raffel. The Laces of Ipswitch: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750-1840 (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003), 51-52. (general reference)
Elizabeth M. Kurella, A Guide to Lace and Linens (Norfolk, Virginia: Antique Trader Books, 1998), 115-16. (general reference)
Frances Morris, Notes on Laces of the American Colonists (New York: William Helburn, Inc., 1926), plate 15 and p. 11. (general reference)
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, American Lace & Lace-Makers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1924), Plates 65-67. (general reference)