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Strip of needle lace with clover leaves and fan-shaped flowers
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Strip of natural-coloured needle lace: men's Alençon. Scatter motif with clover leaves on a fine hexagonal mesh ground. Along the upper edge a row of rosettes. The pattern at the underside of the strip consists of a series of leaf branches with plumes. Below that fan-shaped flowers originating from the lower edge, filled with an ornamental ground. The underside is finished with a scalloped edge of picotted circles with a wheel picot inside. The upper side is finished with a straight edge.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineStrook naaldkant met klaverblaadjes en waaiervormige bloemen. c. 1775 - c. 1799. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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