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Border of Needle Lace with Octagonal Rosettes
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The earliest needle lace was made by securing guiding threads to a background and building up the patterns with needle and thread. The tight grid of the threads lent itself to a wealth of geometric designs.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBorder of Needle Lace with Octagonal Rosettes. c. 1550 - c. 1625. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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