{"product_id":"french-lot-1900s-1910s-hand-crocheted-lace-eyelet-pinafore-apron","title":"French Maid · Antique 1900s-1920s Hand-Crocheted Lace Eyelet Pinafore Apron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCotton eyelet · hand-crocheted lace trim · pointed bib front, pinned at the bust · gathered waist and skirt · unsigned, from a French lot · 1900s-1920s · 77cm total length · 45cm skirt width · faint age discolouration only\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHold the bib to the light and every eyelet reads as a small, tidy flower, machine-embroidered with the even, repeating precision that only came with commercial broderie anglaise cotton. The lace edging it is a different hand entirely, looping and doubling back on itself in a single unbroken thread, the unmistakable rhythm of a crochet hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one came to the archive inside a French lot gathered in the 1980s, already old by then, its own making decades earlier than its collecting. The style, a pointed bib pinned rather than buttoned at the bust, with a gathered skirt tied behind, belongs to the turn-of-the-century pinafore worn over a dress for household work, the machine-made broderie anglaise cotton dressed up afterward with a hand-crocheted edge. That combination, ready-made yardage finished by hand, sits comfortably in the 1900s-1920s, when commercial eyelet cotton was common but a hand-worked trim was still how a plain apron became someone's good one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook for what is missing as much as what is there: no neck strap, no button at the bib, just a bare point meant to be pinned directly to the dress at the bust, the ordinary fastening for pinafores of this age before safety pins gave way to snaps. The waist gathers into a 45cm skirt below a plain 26cm-wide bib, and the tie at each side runs a generous 61cm, long enough to cross and knot behind over whatever dress sat beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44175480586374,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3646_c8d3755f-7e47-4475-969f-d1940cd6a226.jpg?v=1784616716","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/french-lot-1900s-1910s-hand-crocheted-lace-eyelet-pinafore-apron","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}