Fragment of a spool lace strip with two triangular compositions, Fragment of a strip of natural spool lace: old Brabant lace. The original pattern has two alternating and more or less triangular compositions with large motifs, which are partly connected by a braided ground with picots and partly by a grid. One of the compositions can be seen here and concerns the symmetrical composition with a large flower in the center, or fruit in a bowl, surrounded by rosette flowers and four pointed ovals. The motifs are made in loosely worked linen with openwork edges and with very sparingly embossed contour lines. Five-hole soil was used as decorative ground. The top is finished with a clinked edge. The shell edge on the bottom comes from the pattern., anonymous, Southern Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1724, linen (material), old Brabant lace, l 35 cm × w 17.5 cm
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