Strip of bobbin lace with thin twig and downward hanging bunch of rosette flowers or forget-me-nots, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen side. Under a scattering pattern of five rows of rosette flowers, the repeating pattern along the underside of the strip consists of an obliquely placed thin branch on which a bunch of rosette flowers hangs downwards. A semicircular shell is formed around each bunch of rosette flowers. The twigs with flower clusters are made in little linen, with a recess in the flower hearts and thicker and shiny contour threads. The rosette flowers in the scatter pattern are made with contour threads, in which square motifs in form are used in every openwork heart. The motifs are connected by a nice mesh ground, a Mechelen ground. The top of the strip is finished straight. The shell edge at the bottom is finished with picots., anonymous, Mechelen, c. 1830, linen (material), Mechlin (lace), l 223 cm × w 7 cm ×, 2.2 cm
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