Each version is played out in two tones only, and the graphic owes its transparency to lace, open where lace is open and dense where it is worked. The drawing underneath is early eighteenth century; Rubelli's studio took it and layered other designs over the top until the historical source stopped being legible as such.
50,000 Martindale on a 39 cm vertical repeat over 35 cm across, in eco viscose and eco polyamide with cotton. It upholsters well, and the short repeat means it does so without waste. Nine colours, 140 cm wide, made in Italy.
