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Strip of lace embroidery with volute scrolls on a floral ground and leaf rosette
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Strip of natural-colored batiste with lace embroidery: Dresden lace or point de Dinant. With a pattern of a flower bed and a leaf rosette, from which volute vines come forth with composite flowers and a large fan-shaped calyx flower. The border is slightly scalloped with smaller shells. The motifs are made in shadow work and the decorative filling of lattice work in work with drawn threads and work with gathered threads.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineStrook kantborduurwerk met voluutranken uit bloembodem en bladrozet. c. 1740 - c. 1760. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.