This centrepiece uses the frivoleté / tatting technique. Eva Herzfeld and her mother learned this technique and worked on it during their six week sea crossing from Italy to Argentina in 1948. They made the journey with other Red Cross refugees, all fleeing post War Europe and seeking a better life in Chile.
The curator brought it with her when she moved to London in the late 1990s and later when she moved to Northern Ireland in 2004. | 
