Strip of bobbin lace with a diamond between four circles and a heart between six diamonds

Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Swedish lace. The strip is pinned to a light blue card with seven other strips. Written on the card above the strip is "Laces from Dalecarlia. (Dalarna)". The repeating pattern is formed by a bundle of threads worked through a mesh ground, a diamond-shaped net ground. The threads form alternately a heart surrounded by six diamonds and a diamond surrounded by four circles. Along the lower edge of the strip, between these successive motifs, there is always a trapezoidal motif, with a small indentation in the center. The hearts, diamonds and trapezia are made in linen stitch with openwork edges and whose contours are thus formed by the thick threads. In each circle (around the diamonds) a larger oval mesh is made between the meshes of the net ground. The top and bottom edges of the strip are finished straight and provided with picots.