Honiton (East Devon) lace sprig
- Description
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This East Devon bobbin lace sprig is part of a collection of British and Continental lace put together by Charlotte Treadwin, an important lace manufacturer with a business based in the Cathedral Yard, Exeter. The collection was donated to the museum in the late 1860s for lace-makers and designers to study. Treadwin once stated that there was not a single lace-designer in the whole of Devon, and strove to improve this, employing an artist to draw out her designs, and studying samples to better inform her practice and experimentation with lace-making patterns and techniques. By 1868, the lace manufactory and showrooms were already based at 5 Cathedral Yard (now known as the Cathedral Close).
The business had already been granted the royal warrant from Queen Victoria in 1848, before Charlotte’s marriage to John Treadwin.
- Accession Loan No.
- 29/2006/177
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- Honiton (East Devon) lace sprig
- Simple Name
- lace sprig
- Full Name
- Honiton (East Devon) lace sprig
- Production Person Surname
- Treadwin (nee Dobbs)
- Production Person Initials
- Charlotte
- Production Date
- 1848
- Production Year High
- 1868
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
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