Description (Labels & Markings)
Handritten label found with object reads: "From Lepury [sic] only on deposit J.E. Foster Esq."
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: "D.1904.3 Lace-pillow Puy (Le Velay) [sic] France. Dep. J.E. Foster. Ma."
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
A roller pillow used for bobbin lace making, comprising a straw-stuffed roller covered in blue fabric, set into a hollow-backed sloping wooden frame also covered with blue fabric on the rear and bottom and with blue and white floral print linoleum on the top, with bands of green material (possibly also linoleum) securing the roller. A pink-coloured card pricking pattern is pinned to the roller, overlain by a short length of white lace held by blue-topped pins, the linen threads of which are connected to twenty-two bobbins. Three of the bobbins have become detached, though it seems they were all once bound together with string.
Event Date 31/1/2019
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Sloping lace pillow with a central straw-filled rolling bar, pricking pattern of pink card, a length of partially constructed lace in-situ and 22 attached wooden bobbins. The pillow has a hollow-backed wooden frame, covered partially in blue fabric and partially in blue and white floral print linoleum with bands of green material, possibly also linoleum, attached by blue headed-pins. One bobbin is detached but present.
Event Date 9/6/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2022.5384 | Surface Clean
Event Date 9/6/2022
Author: Ayesha Fuentes