Strip of bobbin lace with cross and diamond or "silver cross"

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)" and below it "Silvercross. (silverkors)". The repeating pattern is formed by a bundle of threads worked through a mesh ground, a diamond-shaped net ground. The threads form alternately 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 stitch with openwork edges. In the diamond-shaped motif two small motifs are made in linen stitch and above it one small triangular motif. The top and bottom edges of the strip are finished straight and provided with picots.