Thu Jul 25, 2024 06:30 AM

As beautiful as the silk and silver floral sprays and gilt lace on this set of embroidered pillow covers in the Victoria and Albert Museum are, it was the bow fastenings that first caught my eye for some reason. The hexagons in the lace are certainly lovely though. They bear a lot of similarities to the early style of the bobbin lace patterns in the Sessa Brothers 1558 _Le Pompe_ https://archive.org/details/pagano1558lepompebnfbtv1b10548004t/page/n29/mode/1up

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O316168/pair-of-cushion/pair-of-cushion-unknown/