Strip of machine lace with diagonally placed and deeply cut seven-lobed flowers
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Strip of natural-colored machine lace. The repeating pattern consists, slightly below the center line, of the contours of a diagonally placed flower with seven deeply cut lobes as petals. The flower sits on a curved stem with two small leaves, and springs from the straight ornamental border along the underside of the strip. This border consists of six narrow lines with a different pattern. The contours of the flowers and the flowers among each other are connected to each other by a machine 'braid ground'. Above the center line the machine tulle ground is decorated with four rows of groups of four oval cutouts placed in a diamond shape. Above these four rows stand two rows with single oval cutouts. The top side of the strip has the pattern of an ornamental border with a row of snowflakes. The short sides of the strip are finished with a hem.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description