EditorialStrip of machine side with cartouches formed by curly thin branches, Strip of natural-colored machine side: machine side of Mechelen. The strip is cut from a wider piece, so that the pattern along the top is incomplete. Under the incomplete pattern, th...
EditorialStrip of spool lace with decorative bands and S-shaped ribs with oval buttons, Strip of natural spool lace, old Flemish lace. The seemingly messy, repetitive pattern consists of a succession of very narrow S-shaped tendrils with small oval buttons on t...
EditorialFragment of a rope or woven piece of textile from the wreck of the East Indiesman 't Vliegend Hart, who died in 1735. It is a messy piece of fiber, brown in color. Rope, Dutch East India Company, 't Vliegend Hart (ship), c. 1700 - c. 1735, h 7.2 cm ? w...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with decorative bands and hanging carnation, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Binche lace. The repeating pattern consists of decorative bands that create two different lobed fields. In one field there is a loose, curved branch...