19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) animal shaped with a very otherworldly sort

with a very otherworldly sort of glow to the image

with a fair number of tiny bubbles in the glass) and the whimsy date to the late 19th century or so

Hard not to get sucked into this once one begins reading

And while I took it for a planter

Bright colors can be satisfying

19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) animal shaped with a very otherworldly sortI believe this is French and dates to the 1870s 80s; the closest example I could find, down to the manner of the numbering, is a whole sample book of eyelet lace in the collection of the Met, though those samples were more neatly trimmed than these! The dealer I purchased this page from described them as swatches of petticoat lace, and indeed that would be a common use for embroidered cotton eyelet lace like this. This of course is much better in hand