Unbleached and bleached linen (est.), or cotton (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); brown silk (est.): bobbin lace edging
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art
The frayed quality of the fragment causes the buratto pattern to appear abstracted, but it was likely a flowering vine.
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