Thanks to all of you have told me about "clocking". They appear to be embroidered motifs around the ankle area of stockings.
Thank you to those readers who supplied a couple of good links here about stockings and the motifs here
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pair-of-infants-stockings-121440
https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/18th-century-stockings-how-shocking/
I googled images of early nineteenth century stockings and found many good pics there too if any of you want to follow it up further.
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