Honiton bride ground bertha

8" x 46.75"
Good white condition, a little wrinkled, washed?
Photographed for the PieceWork, July/August 2014, pp33-38, "Honiton Lace - One of England's Loveliest Laces"

Scattered flowers & leaves, bride ground, long and flat. Similar to a bertha Queen Victoria wore in the watercolor by by Aaron Edwin Penley, circa 1840, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Although the Queen's bertha is probably a little narrower.

purchased 07/11/2011
first posted 09/10/2011