Strip of needle lace with flower branches and star-shaped flowers

Strip of natural-colored needle lace: Argentan lace and Alençon lace. Repetitive motif with two different flower branches, each flanked by two star-shaped flowers placed one above the other, on a ground with meshes densely overcast with buttonhole stitches (Argentan lace). The flower branches curve towards each other alternately. Along the lower side under a wavy line underneath a pattern of flowers and berries on a fine hexagonal mesh ground (Alençon lace). Ornamental ground with wheel picots in the larger flowers and the circles along the lower edge. Full work with minimal cutouts within the contours of the other motifs. Shell edge at the lower side by a series of circles, regularly interrupted by a rosette flower. The upper side is edged with a border of bobbin lace.