Strip of spool lace with cross and diamond or 'silverkors', Natural spool of lace strip, Swedish lace. The strip is attached to pins on a light blue cardboard with seven other strips. Above the strip on the cardboard is' Laces from Dalecarlia. (Dalarna) 'written below and' Silvercross. (silvercors). The repeating pattern is formed by a bundle of threads, which has been worked through a mesh ground, a diamond-shaped straw grid. The threads alternately form the contours of a cross on a flat base and a diamond-shaped motif crowned by two rectangles. Within the contour threads of the cross
Strip of spool lace with cross and diamond or 'silverkors', Natural spool of lace strip, Swedish lace. The strip is attached to pins on a light blue cardboard with seven other strips. Above the strip on the cardboard is' Laces from Dalecarlia. (Dalarna) 'written below and' Silvercross. (silvercors). The repeating pattern is formed by a bundle of threads, which has been worked through a mesh ground, a diamond-shaped straw grid. The threads alternately form the contours of a cross on a flat base and a diamond-shaped motif crowned by two rectangles. Within the contour threads of the cross, a border is made in linen with openwork edges. In the diamond-shaped motif, two small motifs are made in linen and one small triangular motif above it. The top and bottom of the strip are straight finished and provided with picots., anonymous, Dalarna (possibly), c. 1800 - c. 1899, linen (material), Swedish lace, l 7 cm × w 13 cm ×, 10 cm
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