Caption:
Strip of bobbin lace with a continuous row of circles and trapezoidal fields, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Swedish lace. The strip is attached to pins on a light blue cardboard with seven other strips. Above the strip on the cardboard is' Laces from Dalecarlia. (Dalarna) 'written. The repeating and continuous pattern is formed by a bundle of threads, which has been worked through a mesh ground, a diamond-shaped straw grid. These meshes are interrupted by a simple decorative soil of three larger oval meshes. Around these three oval meshes, the thick wire forms a trapezoidal field to subsequently form a configuration of three circular fields in the straw grid ground and then again a trapezoidal field around the oval meshes. And so on. The top and bottom of the strip are straight finished and provided with picots., anonymous, Dalarna, c. 1800 - c. 1899, linen (material), bobbin lace, l 1 cm × w 16 cm