Strip of linen with openwork circles with suns and stars, Strip of natural-colored linen with openwork circles: English embroidery. The lower half of the strip has been edited. The pattern consists of thirteen rows of openwork circles with embroidered edges. The circles in the center are decorated with alternating suns, stars and cogs. In a few rows there are also rosettes, which are made with a smaller openwork circle around which six other circles lie as petals. Between the successive circles in the top row, triangles are built with ten of these small circles. The shell edge along the underside of the strip is finished with a wavy line of these small circles, around which small lobes have been made per shell. The strip is probably intended or used for attachment to a gown., anonymous, Oost-Indonesie (possibly), c. 1920, linen (material), embroidering, l 208 cm × w 34 cm ×, 2.5 cm
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