High necked, caped collar cut with a yoke and an outer frill of machine made black net, probably cotton. Decorated with straw splints which are twisted round the mesh of the net in roundels and leaf-shapes. The roundels are used to outline all the parts of the collar and the leaf-shapes form flower-heads round the neck band, the lower edge of the yoke and the outer, scalloped edge of the frill. The edges, which are cut and turned in, and flower stems on the frill are embroidered with yellow silk in running stitch. The Azores started trading in straw embroidered net in the mid-nineteenth century with other European countries, including England but mostly America. Collar of cotton net decorated with straw and silk, possibly made in Portugal, 1880s.