Strook katoen met kantborduurwerk met opengewerkte bloemen en bessen

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Every petal in this delicate border is a precisely overcast cutwork eyelet, snipped and stitched by hand into fine white cotton. Created in Amsterdam between 1860 and 1880, this strip of broderie anglaise by C.I. Bosch Reitz-Teding van Berkhout features a repeating vine of six-petalled flowers and berry clusters with a scalloped lower edge. It matters because it survived as evidence of skilled needlework at the exact moment machine-made lace was threatening to make such painstaking craft disappear entirely.

Written by LinkedCulture for its video on this object. Machine-generated (claude-sonnet-4-6), not yet reviewed by a person. It is not part of the museum’s record.