EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with a drop-shaped motif, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, sling side. The repetitive and symmetrical pattern consists of a drop-shaped pattern. The successive drops touch each other. In the open center of each drop is a styli...
EditorialStrip bobbin lace with star and crescent, Black bobbin lace, Cluny lace. Symmetrical design with deep scallops and a braided ground. Each shell is filled with an eight-pointed star that is covered at the bottom by a crescent moon. The scallop edge is f...
EditorialStrip bobbin lace with star and crescent, Black bobbin lace, Cluny lace. Symmetrical design with deep scallops and a braided ground. Each shell is filled with an eight-pointed star that is covered at the bottom by a crescent moon. The scallop edge is f...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with flying insects between flower sprays, Strip of natural-colored Brussels bobbin lace. The pattern consists of flying insects between flower sprays with different larger and smaller flowers. Along the underside, the pattern cons...
EditorialStrip of spool lace with deep wave line, Strip of spool of lace, Cluny lace. The strip is cut, one report is just not completely complete anymore, the upper part of the following report is cut away along the wave line. The original, repetitive and symm...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with flower or star in square with pointed scallop, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, Cluny lace. The repeating pattern consists of a cut-away square, in which alternately there is a star or a flower with eight points or eight ...
EditorialCuff from bobbin lace with relief flowers in diamonds and a border with suns, Cuff from natural-colored bobbin lace: Cluny lace. This is a fine variety within the Cluny-edges group. Trapezoidal model with a V-shaped point in the center on one long side...
EditorialSpacer made from spool lace with triangles, Spacer made from natural-colored spool lace. The repeating pattern consists of triangles made in linen, which alternately lie along the top and bottom of the strip and are connected to each other by an open-w...
EditorialStrip spool lace with deep wave line, Strip spool lace, Cluny lace. The repetitive and symmetrical pattern consists of a deep wave line. In every golf valley there is a rosette with two smaller rosettes above and a four-pointed star in between. Each go...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with concatenation of eight-lobed rosette flowers, Natural strip of bobbin lace: Russian lace (ribbon lace). The pattern is formed by cloned ribbons of equal width. The pattern consists of a concatenation of symmetrical eight-lobed...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with star in drop-shaped shell, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace. The strip has a strongly curved shape and the short sides are put together invisibly. It forms a circle when it is laid flat. The repetitive pattern consists of ...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with pearl necklace in composite tendril, Natural Brussels-colored bobbin lace. The pattern consists of a wavy branch, which is composed of all kinds of leaves, a heart-shaped flower, a bunch of oval flowers, a pearl necklace and a...
EditorialStrip bobbin lace with star and crescent, Black bobbin lace, Cluny lace. Symmetrical design with deep scallops and a braided ground. Each shell is filled with an eight-pointed star that is covered at the bottom by a crescent moon. The scallop edge is f...
EditorialStrip bobbin lace with star and crescent, Black bobbin lace, Cluny lace. Symmetrical design with deep scallops and a braided ground. Each shell is filled with an eight-pointed star that is covered at the bottom by a crescent moon. The scallop edge is f...
EditorialStrip bobbin lace with star and crescent, Strip black bobbin lace, Cluny lace. Symmetrical design with deep scallops and a braided ground. Each shell is filled with an eight-pointed star that is covered at the bottom by a crescent moon. The scallop edg...
EditorialGirl of the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, 19th century. The dress has a very high waist, the chemise has puff sleeves, and the flat straw hat decorated with ribbons and bows is worn above a black velvet toquet. Her long pigtails reveal her to be un...
EditorialRear view of a woman's chignon with two pigtails and four papoose curls called the Chancellor. Chignon a la Chanceliere. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, ...
EditorialRear view of a woman's chignon with two pigtails and four papoose curls called the Chancellor. Chignon a la Chanceliere. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, ...
EditorialPeasant girl of the environs of Kell am See, Germany, 19th century. She wears a small bonnet over her long pigtails, and carries a straw hat decorated with knots. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Lou...
EditorialFlower seller of Hamburg, Germany, 19th century. She wears a large straw hat over a small bonnet, and her long pigtails show that she is single. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante fro...
EditorialGirl of the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, 19th century. The dress has a very high waist, the chemise has puff sleeves, and the flat straw hat decorated with ribbons and bows is worn above a black velvet toquet. Her long pigtails reveal her to be un...
EditorialYoung woman of the Oetz Valley, Tyrol, Switzerland, 19th century. She wears her hair in pigtails braided with red ribbon secured with a silver needle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lan...
EditorialSingle woman of Bern in distinctive straw hat decorated with flowers, Switzerland, 19th century. Her chemise is embroidered with her initials, E.B. Her long pigtails are dressed with ribbons that reach her feet. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Ge...
EditorialWoman of Bern in distinctive straw hat decorated with flowers, Switzerland, 19th century. Her long pigtails are dressed with ribbons that reach her feet.
EditorialChinese woman in silk jacket fastened at the shoulder, velvet diadem, pigtails, fan and rose. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from "L'Art du Travestissement" (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera de...