Strip of machine-made lace with three rows of flower sprigs and w-shaped motifs along the bottom, Strip of natural-colored machine-made lace: machine-made Alençon lace. The strip is slightly curved in shape. The repeating pattern consists of three rows of flower branches with one moss between the flower branches in the top two rows each time. The successive flower branches in the top row consist of one flower with two petals. In the middle row, three flowers are always hanging from the flower branches. The lower flower branches are the largest with three flowers and a flower bud in the top. Along the bottom edge are w-shaped motifs between which circles are made with a decorative ground, a machine-made rose ground. The motifs have contour threads and are connected by a hexagonal mesh ground, a machine-made Alençon ground. The top of the strip is finished straight. The faintly scalloped underside stems from the pattern with the w-shaped motifs and circles and is finished with picots., anonymous, France, c. 1850, cotton (textile), length 105 cm × width 6 cm × 3.2 cm
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