Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with a Floral (tendril) Motif
- Date
- 1500s–1600s
- Medium
- Bleached and blue dyed linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions)
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The light blue ground of this fragment of lace, together with the varying thicknesses of threads used for the ground and the embroidered pattern, create a sense of depth in the textile. The white thread is bleached linen and the blue is linen that has been bleached and dyed. The word lace derives from the Latin laqueus , meaning noose .
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