Lace Pillow
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lace Pillow

1800s

Bobbin lace (Torchon lace) pillow; paper, pins, wood bobbins, linen thread
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The boxwood bobbins are handmade. At one point, these boxwood bobbins were cut off, perhaps to use them for another piece of lace, and have since been reknotted to the linen thread on this bobbin lace pillow.

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