Cylindrical blue lacemaker's pillow, with two samples of lace pinned to it. The longer of the two samples is in the process of being made, with the paper template and a group of spangled wooden bobbins attached. Several pins attached to the pillow. For associated additional pins see [1943.12.1 .2] [EH [OPS Move] 7/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Cylindrical blue lacemaker's pillow, with two samples of lace pinned to it. The longer of the two samples is in the process of being made, with the paper template and a group of spangled wooden bobbins attached. Several pins attached to the pillow. For associated additional pins see [1943.12.1 .2] [EH [OPS Move] 7/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Somerset
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1943
Date collected: By 1943
Acquisition information: Donated: 1943
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Glass, Material Pigment, Material Bead, Material Lace Textile, Process Stitched, Process Wound, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Length: max 315 mm pillow, Width: max 220 mm pillow, Height: max 195 mm pillow
Object numbers: Accession number: 1943.12.1.1
Research and responses: OED online: Trolly lace: 1. Name of a kind of lace: see quots. Also attrib.
a1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Trolly-lolly, coarse Lace once much in fashion, now worn only by the meaner sort. 1756 MRS. DEWES in Mrs. Delany's Life & Corr. (1861) III. 434 She is..dressed much better than I ever saw her. I fancy her friend Mrs. Egerton has vamped her up with a trolly hood. 1882 CAULFEILD & SAWARD Dict. Needlework 501 Trolly Laces..are Pillow Laces, made in Normandy, in Flanders, and in Buckinghamshire, and Devonshire,..their ground..is an imitation of the Antwerp Trolly Net or Point de Paris Ground, and is made with twists, while the pattern is outlined with a thick thread like that used in the old Flemish Laces, and known as Trolle Kant. 1891 Cent. Dict. s.v. Trolley, Honiton lace made with a trolley ground. 1895 Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v. Trolley, T[rolley]-thread, one of the threads outlining the pattern of trolley-lace. [AP 26/09/2006]

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