Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Wide Circular Pattern
- Date
- 1500s–1600s
- Medium
- Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, mezza mandolina
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The mezza mandolina technique produces an irregular mesh netting, as opposed to the uniform knotted netting of filet/lacis needle lace. This piece gains the overall effect of the mesh netting through the lace maker’s use of large and small circular patterns. Mezza mandolina was frequently used for lace collars, often depicted in portraits of women from the 1500s and 1600s.
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