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Strip of machine-made lace with fuchsia flower in C-shaped branch
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Strip of natural-colored machine lace: machine Valenciennes lace. The repeating pattern consists of a C-shaped branch, from which hangs a fuchsia-like flower. Directly against the branch, a smaller, mirrored C-scroll emerges from the underside. The shells along the underside consist of three small shells, formed by C-scrolls hanging at the bottom of the pattern. The motifs are connected by a diamond-shaped lattice ground. Cutouts are made in the motifs, and openwork edges around the motifs. Between the C-scrolls at the bottom of the pattern, a fine machine snowflake ground is applied as decorative ground.
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Credit lineStrook machinale kant met fuchsiabloem in c-vormige tak. c. 1875 - c. 1899. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.