Unusual wide band of tape lace with a design typical of seventeenth century point plat or point de Venise needle lace. It is rather flat, with no significant raised edges. Scroll down for details and photos of why I think it’s seventeenth century and not a Victorian revival. The fiber seems to be linen, more typical of the early date, and not cotton, as would be expected for circa 1900 lace. Condition: Clean, and strong and lively threads. Some subtle stains, and lots of replaced connecting bars, but still an attractive piece. SP-912T-1$95.00 The design is rambling and lively, not static as would be typical of a revival imitation. The tapes all are edged with precisely spaced buttonhole stitches, apparent only with high magnification. The Victorian tapes have an edge that mimics this. It is incomprehensible that the edge would have been stitched in this way when machine made tapes were available. The connecting bars, especially those that are original (integral with the buttonhole-stitch edges) have the half-moon picots typical of seventeenth century needle lace.