EditorialThe stand-up comedian James Tison onstage at Club Cumming, which hosts Tison’s “Snowflake Mic” night, in New York, on Dec. 1, 2019. (Michael George/The New York Times)
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with zigzag pendulum above an edge with s-volutes, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen side. The pattern along the upper half of the strip consists of a slightly irregular zig-zag thin pendulum, with leaves on either sid...
EditorialSteel bobbin lace with coarse thread as an example of false spiders with a fragment side in which this technique is applied, Natural steel colored bobbin lace with coarse thread as an example of false spiders (cross between a spider and a snowflake) wi...
EditorialWriting box with Sarusawa Pond, writing box (suzuribako) of lacquerware with gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie and togidashi, with inlaid gold leaf (kirigane) on a black background sprinkled with fine gold dust, with a decoration of a representation...
EditorialStrip machine-side with wavy branch with two different flowers and berries, Natural-machine-side strip: machine-painted Valenciennes lace. The repeating pattern consists of a continuous wavy branch, which is formed by two different flowers on curved st...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with three rows of squares and scallop edge, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace. The pattern consists of three rows of squares. In each row the squares are alternately made in linen stroke with recesses that make a horizontal and...
EditorialHandkerchief of batist with three flower branches in each corner made in shadow work and around a border of Flanders lace, Handkerchief of natural-colored batist with embroidery and a border of bobbin lace: Flanders lace. The embroidery is in the corne...
EditorialSaint Nicholas Hotel: Spandrel Panels in Snowflake Design. Adler & Sullivan; American, 1883-1895; Designer: Louis H. Sullivan. Date: 1892-1893. Dimensions: 54 ? 48 ? 4 in. Terra-cotta. Origin: Saint Louis.
EditorialHat bobbin from bobbin lace with flower vase, Hat bobbin from natural-colored Brussels bobbin lace. Symmetrical pattern. In a large lobed cartouche stands a large flower vase, on one foot and filled with flower sprays, large leaves and a middle rosette...
EditorialModestie with strip of bobbin lace with feathered leaves, Modestie with strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Binche lace. A rectangular piece of natural-colored linen (new), partly with an open border decoration, is trimmed with a strip of bobbin lace...
EditorialSaint Nicholas Hotel: Spandrel Panels in Snowflake Design. Adler & Sullivan; American, 1883-1895; Designer: Louis H. Sullivan. Date: 1892-1893. Dimensions: 54 ? 48 ? 4 in. Terra-cotta. Origin: Saint Louis.
EditorialWhite Ibis, Snowflake (Eudocimus albus, Ibis alba), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 360 (vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in the United Stat...
EditorialChristmas Card - Lorna, Syd & Rus, to All At Tollerton, Country Scene, circa 1950s, Christmas Card made by L.J.M.Hodder & Co, circa 1950s. It features a country scene at sunset and a red and white snowflake boarder. It one of a series of cards collecte...
EditorialBorder, 1740s/50s, Belgium, Flanders, Mechlin, Mechelen, Linen, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Mechlin" with kat stitch and snowflake mesh ground, 5.2 x 158.65 cm (2 x 62 1/2 in.).
EditorialSaint Nicholas Hotel: Spandrel Panels in Snowflake Design. Adler & Sullivan; American, 1883-1895; Designer: Louis H. Sullivan. Date: 1892-1893. Dimensions: 54 ? 48 ? 4 in. Terra-cotta. Origin: Saint Louis.
EditorialSaint Nicholas Hotel: Spandrel Panels in Snowflake Design. Adler & Sullivan; American, 1883-1895; Designer: Louis H. Sullivan. Date: 1892-1893. Dimensions: 54 ? 48 ? 4 in. Terra-cotta. Origin: Saint Louis.
Editorialat arrivals for The UNICEF Snowflake Ball, Cipriani Wall Street, New York, NY November 27, 2018. Photo By: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection
Editorialat arrivals for UNICEF USA 14th Annual Snowflake Ball, The Atrium at 59 Pine Street, New York, NY November 27, 2018. Photo By: Jason Mendez/Everett Collection
EditorialWater snowflake, Nymphoides indica (Limnanthemum humboltianum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.