Photo de stock - Sleeve made of a strip of needle lace with volutes and peonies, Sleeve of natural colored needle lace: Brussels gauze lace. Slightly tapered rectangular design with a bevel, composed of different parts that are put together with a light pink lining of raw machined tulle. The needle lace pattern of flower sprays and asymmetrical c-volutes on a fine soil with single twisted meshes: a mesh lace soil, covered with pouches. Completely made with festoon stitches with nuances where the denser filling is made with fabric stitches (a feston stitch variant). Embossed contours of widely bundled wire bundles (cordonnets). Lots of coordinated rings and concatenated circles with different flowers in decorative stitches decorate the lace. The scallops along the lower edge are formed by concatenated horizontal c-volutes with smaller or larger flowers underneath., anonymous, Belgium, c. 1850 - c. 1899, linen (material), voering, Brussels point de gaze, l 30 cm × w 22.5 cm