Plate 56.

Lace pillow and bobbins with black trimming lace. Begun by Miss Nina Hall Brisbane, of Charleston, South Carolina, born February 15, 1842, died at Brooklyn, New York, February 13, 1921. She learned to make pillow bobbin lace from nuns in a convent at St. Augustine about 1870. She gave her pillow to the Litchfield Historical Society while temporarily living in Litchfield.