Handkerchief of batiste with white work continuing into a border of lace embroidery with a zigzag pattern and around a border of bobbin lace

Handkerchief of natural-colored batiste with embroidery - whitework - with around it an openwork border of needle lace: work with drawn threads that continues from the batiste and is stuffed. The open needlework gives the impression of filet lace through the square grid that resembles a knotted network. Around this whole is sewn a border of bobbin lace: Binche lace. Square model with straight edges. The white-on-white embroidery is in a continuous pattern along the edge of the batiste and consists of loose curling vines with small leaves and clusters of three rosette flowers between which some larger flowers stand, different in shape and with openwork flower hearts. The corners each have three hollow shells. The work with drawn threads has a square grid in which a zigzag pattern with roses is made with stuffing work. The zigzag is here and there interrupted by three embroidered rosette flowers. A wide strip of eighteenth-century lace is sewn around the whole, with seams at the corners.