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Cap lace and strip of bobbin lace with wedge-shaped rivières and bubble-shaped cartouches
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Cap lace and strip of bobbin lace with wedge-shaped rivières and bubble-shaped cartouches

anonymous · c. 1770 · Bucks point (lace); drochelgrond; bobbin lace; linen (material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Neck cushion with an attached strip, both of natural-colored bobbin lace: probably Buckingham lace. The pattern consists of two wedge-shaped rivers formed by a winding stem, leaf, rosette buds, with meshwork in the spared bubble-shaped cartouches. Scattering motif of leaves, rosettes, and a coarse branch with berries or round leaves. The lace resembles Brussels bobbin lace, but with a coarse drochel ground. The motifs are made in linen stitch with sparingly used relief contours. As a decorative ground a coarser lattice ground is applied, decorated with picots and form shapes.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineMutsenbol en strook van kloskant met wigvormige rivières en blaasvormige cartouches. c. 1770. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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