19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) animal bowl or forever

or forever

At some point someone added a wire on the back in order to hand this on the wall

and wonderfully playful

One sees some sewer tile pieces that were made using molds

19th Century Embroidered Eyelet Lace Samples: Over-sized, Double-sided Page (13 Samples) animal bowl or foreverI 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