Strip of machine-made lace with a wavy vine with two different flowers and berries
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Strip of natural-colored machine lace: machine Valenciennes lace. The repeating pattern consists of a continuous wavy vine, which is formed by two different flowers on curved stems. From each, always curling upward flower, protrude two short stems with three berries on them. Next to the always bending downward flower stand two loose berries. The motifs are provided with openwork edges and small cutouts and are connected to each other by a machine Valenciennes ground with square mesh. In the flower hearts a machine snowflake is applied. Along the lower edge of the strip a regular scalloped edge is formed with horizontal arches, where the mesh ground passes into a narrow strip. The upper edge of the strip is finished straight. The shallow scalloped edge along the lower edge is finished with picots.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description