Cap back, bobbin lace, mid 18th century, Flanders (Mechlin). Cap back, in Mechlin bobbin lace. Design of a basket of fruit, including melon and cherries, and flowers inside a cartouche, another outer cartouche twined with grape-bearing vines, with a different diapered filling, the inner one on an open geometric mesh.  Bobbin lace worked in linen thread.