Drawing

Collection object


1988.0078.015
H. 45.6 W. 45.0
Design, Limerick lace. White ink design on grey paper mounted on cloth. Design for ?handkerchief. Square design with quatrefoil central blank area; full outline of piece, with inner and outer borders drawn; full design on one half only, diagonal half. Inner border; quatrefoils at junctions of the lobes of central quatrefoil, linked by wavy edge band; outer border twin interlinked ovals at corners and centres of sides, linked by wave edge band; where design in full, a short twig with three leaves rises internally from each wave crest, with curve of four circles between each. Internal design; from each quatrefoil of inner border, five strands of pendant foliage with short leaves radiate, with central strand running towards middle of outer sides; two intersecting curving pendant strands of similar foliage, from inner border half way between quatrefoils; in each corner a trail of foliage, with oval pendant flowers covered in dots. Design mounted on thin white cotton cloth