Needlelace Pattern for the Edges of a Collar

Needle lace pattern for the edges of a Venetian needle lace collar, drawn in ink on blue paper. The collar edge has a U-shaped design with scallops along the outer side. The bottom of the U-shape is flattened on the outside, while the scallop edge continues normally. At some points holes have been started to be made to sew the tracing lines through later. The pattern then becomes a 'pricking' which is placed with the tracing lines on a double cotton backing. Once needle lace stitches are made over and between the tracing threads, the pricking and cotton backing can be cut away and removed. Only the needle lace remains, in this case the collar edge, which can then be joined with other parts to form a complete collar. The collar design was made by a person from Belgium who was interned during the First World War in the 'Elisabeth-dorp' camp in Amersfoort. Mrs van Nierop began making the collar and donated the unfinished parts to the Rijksmuseum as study material.