Strip of bobbin lace with flower branch full of rosette flowers, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen lace. The repetitive and continuous pattern consists of a narrow horn-shaped reserve and a rocaillic-shaped reserve lying along the lower edge, from which a flower branch springs full of short side branches with rosette flowers, like a forget-me-not. Along the top edge, with a pleat running on one short side, a narrower strip is sewn with a pattern of different seed-shaped reserves and a few flowers and leaves. The motifs are connected to each other in both strips by a fine mesh soil
Strip of bobbin lace with flower branch full of rosette flowers, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen lace. The repetitive and continuous pattern consists of a narrow horn-shaped reserve and a rocaillic-shaped reserve lying along the lower edge, from which a flower branch springs full of short side branches with rosette flowers, like a forget-me-not. Along the top edge, with a pleat running on one short side, a narrower strip is sewn with a pattern of different seed-shaped reserves and a few flowers and leaves. The motifs are connected to each other in both strips by a fine mesh soil, the Mechelen soil. The motifs are made in linen with few cutouts, and have very thick contour threads. Various ornamental soils, with coarser meshes, have been used in the reserves and among the rosette flowers. The faintly scalloped undersides of both strips are finished with picots. The sides sewn together are finished straight., anonymous, Mechelen, c. 1740 - c. 1760, linen (material), Mechlin (lace), l 46 cm × w cm, 16 cm l cm × w cm ×, cm
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