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lace band
before 1970
Strip of cream coloured, Azorean lace. The central design is of regularly spaced circles. There is a border all the way round with a slightly scalloped edge. The lace is knitted using fine, curved ...
lace sample
before 1970
Roundel of cream coloured, Azorean lace. The central design is of regularly spaced circles. There is a border all the way round with a zig-zag edge. The lace is knitted using fine, curved metal nee...
lace sample
before 1970
Roundel of cream coloured, Azorean lace. The central design is of regularly spaced circles. There is a border all the way round with a zig-zag edge. The lace is knitted using fine, curved metal nee...
needles
before 1970
Five fine (c.0.5mm diameter), curved metal needles used in knitting a type of traditional Azorean lace. With a small piece of lace threaded onto them.
cloak miniature
before 1950
A scale replica of the 'capote' (or 'capote e capelo') worn by Azorean women from around the nineteenth century to the 1930s/40s. The style of capote varied on different islands, this copies the styl...