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Linen cloth with at the bottom a strip of bobbin lace with a tangle of small flowers and short vines with buds
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Linen cloth with at the bottom a strip of bobbin lace with a tangle of small flowers and short vines with buds

anonymous · c. 1650 - c. 1699 · old Flemish lace; vlechtengrond (kloskant); bobbin lace; linen (material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Cloth of linen with at the bottom a border of natural-coloured bobbin lace: old Flemish bobbin lace. Lace: the pattern consists of a jumble of stylised small flowers and short tendrils with buds (a kind of spiders or snowflakes), which are connected to each other by an irregular plaited ground. The strip of lace is gathered onto the cloth and is finished straight at the bottom with picots. Top left the linen is marked with the letters SS, made with cross stitches in soft yellow silk.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
kleed
Credit lineLinnen kleed met onderaan een strook kloskant met een wirwar van bloemetjes en korte ranken met knopjes. c. 1650 - c. 1699. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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