The pattern is of leafy scrolls and conventional flowers well marked, enriched with light fillings and outlined with cordonnet of fine buttonhole stitching. The ground is of buttonholed brides arranged into hexagons strongly suggestive of Point d'Argentan.
6 ft. 6 in.
(French (?) Alençon or Sedan) late 17th century
![[See larger version]](#3217714491283448956_plate_060_full.jpg.id-7513869977392978690.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate LX. TWO PATTERNS NEEDLE-POINT LACE À RÉSEAU, CALLED POINT D'ALENÇON
In No. 1 the pattern is Venetian in style and the fillings and réseau also mark it as from Burano. In No. 2 the style is more French and it may be from Alençon: every detail of the patterns is outlined with a buttonhole-stitch cordonnet.
Together 9 ft. 6 in.
Late 17th century