Caption

Lace fragment, floral ornaments; fragment of bobbin lace with relief edges made with a needle on a tulle background, featuring a motif of large flowers rosettes and bells and leaves; 19th century, Brussels; lace fabric, width 15 cm, length 110 cm., A wide piece of lace fabric with an overall cream color set against a gray background, featuring a dense floral and leafy pattern with several large scalloped flower motifs along the top edge and a group of bell-shaped blossoms and smaller flowers dispersed throughout; the lace has a fine netted ground with raised embroidered outlines and textured filling stitches creating petals, leaves, stems, and small round accents, and a horizontal decorative border along the bottom edge with open rectangular mesh and a narrow scalloped trim.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A11_402

License type

Rights managed

Available size

43.2Mb (4.6Mb) / 20.0in x 8.4in / 6000 x 2519 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lace fragment floral ornaments fragment bobbin lace relief edges needle tulle background featuring motif large flowers rosettes bells leaves 19th century Brussels lace fabric width 15 cm length 110 cm wide piece cream color set gray background dense floral leafy pattern several large scalloped flower motifs top edge group bell-shaped blossoms smaller flowers dispersed lace fine netted ground raised embroidered outlines textured filling stitches creating petals stems small round accents horizontal decorative border bottom edge open rectangular mesh narrow trim.