Engageante of needle lace with spreading pattern of different flower twigs, Engageante of natural colored needle lace, Argentan lace. The person involved has the shape of a strip, which becomes slightly narrower towards the rounded ends and has been given a slightly curved shape through small pleats on one side. A seam runs across the width in the middle. The strip is provided with a spreading pattern of different flower twigs. The flat scallop border around the entire circumference consists of a chain of elongated little ovals filled with a row of wheeled picots, each half of which has a half oval-shaped arch. The space between the oval and the arch is filled with a very fine mesh soil. The motifs stand on a ground of hexagonal meshes, closely sewn with festival stitches. The full work is made with festival stitches without recesses and the motifs are provided with relief contour lines, with picots here and there. A very fine mesh is used as decorative ground and one or more radar picots in the flower hearts and border pattern. Various metal snaps are sewn along the inner bend., anonymous, France (possibly), c. 1760 - c. 1780, linen (material), Argentan lace, l 27.4 cm × w 9.2 cm ×, 10 cm

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