Photo de stock - Modestie with strip of bobbin lace with feathered leaves, Modestie with strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Binche lace. A rectangular piece of natural-colored linen (new), partly with an open border decoration, is trimmed with a strip of bobbin lace. On a ringed snowflakes ground there is a long, running S-rank with three flowers, cut over by an S-shaped and feathered leaf. The motifs are made in linen and mesh with openwork edges. As a decorative ground in one of the flowers another snow ground was used very sparingly. The top of the strip is finished straight. The shell edge along the bottom is finished with picots. The short sides are finished with a hem. The linen is finished on three sides with a hem. One short side is the self-side of the textile, this side may also have had a hem, because it runs a little longer through the strip side., anonymous, Southern Netherlands, c. 1750, linen (material), large snowflake ground with ring, l 30 cm × w 4 cm ×, 10.5 cm l 31 cm × w 18.3 cm