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Strip of cotton with lace embroidery with wavy double garlands of 'pearl strings' and hanging flower branches
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Strip of natural-colored cotton with lace embroidery: English embroidery. The pattern has strongly wavy double 'pearl string' swags of openwork circles. On each wave crest stands a daisy to which hangs a drop-shaped 'pearl string' with a daisy again in the center. In each wave trough hangs a loose flower branch hanging diagonally downwards with three daisies and various leaves and leaf sprigs. The scallop border follows the pattern where the scallop under the drop-shaped string is just slightly smaller than the scallop under the wave trough with the hanging flower branch.
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Credit lineStrook katoen met kantborduurwerk met golvende dubbele slingers van 'parelsnoeren' en hangende bloemtakken. c. 1860 - c. 1880. C.I. Bosch Reitz-Teding van Berkhout. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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