Stock Photo - Strip of needle lace with flower sprays and star-shaped flowers, Strip of natural colored needle lace: Argentan lace and Alençon lace. Repetitive motif with two different flower branches, each flanked by two star-shaped flowers placed one above the other, on a ground with meshes sewn with buttonhole stitches (Argentan lace). The flower branches bend over and over towards each other. Along the underside under a wavy line including a pattern of flowers and berries on a fine hexagonal mesh (Alençon side). Ornamental soil with radar picots in the larger flowers and the circles along the bottom edge. Full work with minimal cut-outs within the contours of the other designs. Schulpenrand at the bottom by a succession of circles, regularly interrupted by a rosette flower. The top is trimmed with a bobbin lace edge., anonymous, Argentan, c. 1775 - c. 1799, linen (material), Alençon lace, l 115 cm × w 9 cm ×, 12.5 cm