Cylindrical greenish brown coloured cotton lacemaker's pillow, stuffed with straw. A cluster and several individual pins attached to the pillow, and the imprint of a pierced pattern runs in a band part of the way around the pillow. [EH [OPS Move] 7/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Cylindrical greenish brown coloured cotton lacemaker's pillow, stuffed with straw. A cluster and several individual pins attached to the pillow, and the imprint of a pierced pattern runs in a band part of the way around the pillow. [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 Buckinghamshire Hoggeston
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Mrs Hodgson; PRM source Mrs Hodgson
Date / Period: Date made: 1800-1900
Date collected: By 1944
Acquisition information: Donated: 1944
Materials and processes: Material Lace Textile, Material Metal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Straw Fibre Plant, Process Bobbin Lace, Process Stitched, Process Stuffed, Process Woven, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Height: max 240 mm, Width: max 250 mm, Length 305 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1944.6.3
Research and responses: The village is actually named Hoggeston [AP 31/01/2007]

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