Three girls in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) are making pillow lace while sitting on the ground, using angled surfaces to aid the weaving. Six other people, including a baby, are standing or sitting near the wall of a house and a doorway in the background. The people in the background are wearing traditional garb, but the girls making lace appear to be in Western-style clothing. Lace weaving was not an art form native to Sri Lanka and was probably introduced by Dutch colonists, (1907).

Identifier
NYSA_A3045-78_A3398

Date Original
1907

Contributor
H.C. White Company (publisher)

Language
English

Source
New York State Archives. New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction. Instructional lantern slides, ca. 1856-1939. A3045-78, A3398.

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