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Crochet-bordered square textile (handkerchief or small doily), yellow

Crocheted Textile

Square textile combining a plain woven center panel with a wide hand-crocheted lace border. The center is a fine, loose plain-weave fabric (linen or cotton) in cream/white, hemmed where it joins the lace. Surrounding it is a deep border of openwork crochet lace in ecru thread, worked in a fan/shell-and-mesh pattern with regularly spaced raised floral rosettes (puff/popcorn florets) and finished with a scalloped, looped picot edge at all four sides. Entirely handmade; the lace is symmetrical and densely worked.

2025.16.2

Evelyn Sosa collection

2025.16

Evelyn Sosa

Gift

Zoe Hernández Bacallao

1973

1970s

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Made by Zoe Hernández Bacallao in 1973 as a gift for her daughter, Ana Margarita Sosa Hernández, on her 15th birthday, as per donnor.

Materials: Fine plain-weave cotton (center panel); crocheted cotton thread (border). Technique: Hand crochet (openwork fan/shell-and-mesh lace with raised floral motifs and picot/scalloped edging); machine- or hand-hemmed woven center; lace joined to the fabric panel.

Good

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

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