Cleveland Museum of Art

Band with Various Fantastic Creatures and Vegetal Patterns

Date

1800s

Medium

Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)

Culture

Italy, 1800s

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The reversed and backward orientation of many of the squares in this band of lace suggests that this was not their original layout. They were most likely taken apart and later joined back together in a disoriented manner. The square showing a man in midair above a bull-like creature is reminiscent of the Minoan "Bull Leaping" fresco at the Knossos palace complex.

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