Strook katoen met kantborduurwerk met opengewerkte bloemen en bessen

From LinkedCulture

This strip of cotton lace was cut and stitched entirely by hand in Amsterdam sometime between 1860 and 1880, at a moment when machine-made lace was already flooding the market. Running along the band, you can trace six-petalled flowers, oval eyelets, and small berry clusters following a curving stem, all finished with a tight scalloped edge of buttonhole stitch. It was made by or for C.I. Bosch Reitz-Teding van Berkhout, and that named connection makes it a rare window into the domestic needlework culture of a prosperous nineteenth-century Amsterdam household.

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.