This cotton lace border is over six feet long and 10 inches wide. It forms a long row of intricate, highly fanciful, curving, floral sprigs in various orientations. Most of the ground is fine, translucent cotton clothwork, but it is fine meshwork behind the last three motifs on the right. Each motif contains either flowers (daisies, roses, carnations, and others) or imaginary blossoms. Within the curve of each C shaped flower sprig motif, one or more figures is engaged in a wide variety of activities. They include: a bird pecking a snake, a boy holding the paw of a dog that stands on its hind legs, a peacock with its feathers in full display, a male figure playing a pipe while riding a goose, a strutting cock, a woman with a fan balancing herself on the floral stem, a boy with a stick playing on a reed, and a man in a pointed hat whose foot is caught in the beak of a bird’s head that is emerging from the end of the flower sprig. Some of these motifs repeat. The lace uses a wide variety of stitches to give the figures and flowers definition, variety, and texture. There is a narrow guard band containing a flame pattern along the upper edge. Along the lower edge, there is an intricately worked row of tiny scallops with a four petaled flower head nesting within each scallop.