Doily with croched border

Identifier

2020.010

Title

Doily with croched border

Creator

Alice Eichelberger Cleland (1864-1938)

Date

1900

Format

14" diameter

Description

A cotton cloth doily with an elaborate needle lace (?) border. Made by Alice Eichelberger Cleland (1864-1938) in Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, USA sometime between 1890 - 1900. Cleland was an excellent and prolific needlewoman, who must have been working constantly on crocheting.

Provenance

Yvonne J. Milspaw

Citation

yvonnemilspaw, “Doily with croched border,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 13, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/15825.

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