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Lille Border

3.375" x 86" (8.57cm x 218.44cm)
Very good condition. One end cut, the other cut and secured. Stiff linen feel with occasional pinholes, likely from thread weakness.

Late 18th c style, straight border, with an undulating leaf and grape design. The uneven linen thread gives the mesh a streaky appearance, you see this in Lille sometimes. The motifs are quite simple, no extensive clothwork. B=Straight lower border where the repeat has a single woven tally and a very simple filling.

accession number 2021.1.080
purchased 09/13/2021
first posted 12/09/2021




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