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This lace displays layers of patterning that echo the "bizarre" motifs of early 18th-century silks, superimposed on the simple stripe produced by the Leaver's lace machine on which it was woven.

French maker
Lace with "Bizarre" Pattern, ca. 1926
Silk; Leavers lace

Gift of Edward Cella
1999.7.9

 

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