Fragment of a strip of needle lace with curly tendrils and multifarious flowers, Fragment of a strip of natural colored needle lace: flat Venetian lace. Original pattern: richly branched curly tendrils with small multifarious flowers on an irregular open ground with single-sided spiked bars. The motifs are made with festoon stitches with turned stitches cut out and form a pattern. The top was originally trimmed with a bobbin lace edge, due to damage this finish is missing. A few small fragments can still be seen from the straight picot edge with curves along the lower edge., anonymous, Venice, c. 1700, linen (material), flat Venetian (needle point), l 9 cm
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