Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern

Date
1800s
Medium
Bleached plain weave linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)
Culture
Italy, 1800s
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

A scrolling vine with budding vegetation 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 was found in a pattern book. This cloth was given to the museum by Louise Tifft Brown, a native Clevelander who became an expert in lace while living in Venice for 35 years.

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