Border with Renaissance Motif

Cleveland Museum of Art

Border with Renaissance Motif

Date
1800–1840
Medium
Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, machine-made burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
Culture
Italy, early 1800s
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

A scrolling vine or a tendril motif is a recurring pattern in needle lace. The frequent use of the motif, adapted in lace from different centuries and regions, suggests that it may have been inspired by a design in a printed pattern book. Books of patterns for lace making and other needlework were aimed at well-to-do women and girls as a way of encouraging domestic virtue.

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