Caption

Lace fragment, bobbin lace, 17th century, Flanders. Two laces sewn together across their entire width: one with straight edges, the other with strongly semicircularly serrated edges. Both feature identical rosette motifs, with the serrated lace’s rosettes framed at the bottom by a fan-shaped motif. Lace; width 21.5 cm, length 71 cm., A horizontal strip of intricately patterned lace in an off-white or cream color lies against a flat gray background, showing a repeating scalloped top edge and a straight bottom edge, with a few horizontal bands separating two tiers of openwork designs; the lace features several circular and oval motifs made from fine interlacing threads, creating a delicate mesh of loops and small openings, with scallop-shaped arches along the top and a uniform border along the bottom, and the overall visual texture is detailed and lacy in cream contrasted with the smooth medium-gray background.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A14_049

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54.5Mb (5.6Mb) / 20.0in x 10.6in / 6000 x 3173 (300dpi)

Keywords

Lace fragment bobbin lace 17th century Flanders Two laces sewn together across entire width straight edges strongly semicircularly serrated edges feature identical rosette motifs serrated lace’s rosettes framed bottom fan-shaped motif Lace width 21.5 cm length 71 cm horizontal strip intricately patterned lace off-white cream color lies flat gray background showing repeating scalloped top edge straight bottom edge horizontal bands separating two tiers openwork designs features several circular oval motifs fine interlacing threads creating delicate mesh loops small openings scallop-shaped arches top uniform border visual texture detailed lacy cream contrasted smooth medium-gray background.