Strip of needle lace with curly tendrils and a variety of flowers, Strip of natural colored needle lace, Venise flat. Pattern with richly branched curly tendrils with small multifarious flowers on an irregular open ground with single-sided spiked bars. Full work with twisted festoon stitches with different motifs through recesses. The top was originally trimmed with a bobbin lace edge, due to damage this finish is missing. The bottom is finished with a straight picot border with curves., anonymous, Venice, c. 1700, linen (material), flat Venetian (needle point), l 9 cm × w cm, Reimagined b

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