Strip of needle lace with s-shaped decorative band and iris, Strip of natural-colored needle lace: Alençon lace. The repeating pattern consists of a flat S-shaped decorative band in mirror image. The band continues at the top in a wavy branch of pointed and feathered leaves and with an iris that overlies the next decorative band. The bands touch the top of the strip and run obliquely downwards with a faint S-shaped curve to end up along the bottom of the strip. The motifs are made up of festival stitches where very fine cut-outs have been used for decoration. The motifs have relief contours
Strip of needle lace with s-shaped decorative band and iris, Strip of natural-colored needle lace: Alençon lace. The repeating pattern consists of a flat S-shaped decorative band in mirror image. The band continues at the top in a wavy branch of pointed and feathered leaves and with an iris that overlies the next decorative band. The bands touch the top of the strip and run obliquely downwards with a faint S-shaped curve to end up along the bottom of the strip. The motifs are made up of festival stitches where very fine cut-outs have been used for decoration. The motifs have relief contours and are connected to each other by a fine hexagonal mesh ground, an Alençon ground. Ornamental soils with radar picots have been used in the decorative bands, seed beads and flower hearts. The flat scallop edge is finished with picots. The top of the strip is finished with a clotted strap., anonymous, France, c. 1760 - c. 1770, linen (material), Alençon lace, l 168 cm × w 8 cm ×, cm
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