Strip of application lace with rosette flowers on the underside, Strip of natural-colored Brussels application lace: bobbin lace appliqued on machine tulle. A succession of small, uniform, rosette flowers is sewn on a fine hexagonal mesh ground along the underside. Above a row with alternating a circle and a hanging twig with a round flower and two leaves. Bobbin lace designs with linen strokes, recesses as decorative elements and embossed relief contours. The upper side is finished straight with a widely funded wire bundle. The repeating pattern consists of torch-like fan motifs hanging downwards, which, linked together at the widest points, form the shell edge. The fan blades touch almost to the top of the very narrow strip and are connected to each other by a machine lattice ground. side. The repeating and continuous pattern consists of a wavy line that runs midway along the long line of the narrow strip. The line is made in linen with open edges on both sides and is connected to a machine square Valenciennes soil, which makes up the rest of the strip. The top and bottom of the strip are finished straight., anonymous, Brussels, c. 1840 - c. 1870, Brussels appliqué, l 69 cm × w 2.7 cm ×, 1.5 cm

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