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Fine and Fashionable

Poster for the 2006/7 Fine and Fashionable exhibition, Barnard Castle, England. Poster for the 2006/7 Fine and Fashionable exhibition, Barnard Castle, England.

Fine and Fashionable: Lace from the Blackborne Collection was an exhibition held at the Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, England) between September 2006 and April 2007. The exhibition included over 200 items of early bobbin and needle lace that were donated to the Museum by descendents of Anthony and Arthur Blackborne, London-based dealers in lace in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In 2006 their descendants gave the remaining stock, study collection and accompanying documents to the Bowes Museum (UK). When it arrived at the museum the Blackborne collection consisted of several trunks filled with unsorted lace. The contents of the trunks included c. 7,000 pieces of lace, including a man’s needle lace collar for a cloak, possibly owned by King Charles I of England. The Bowes Museum put on display some 200 pieces from the collection in the exhibition.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 8th June 2016).

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