Band with Scroll Pattern (1500s): Art, History and Details
Band with Scroll Pattern at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1500s, Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Band with Scroll Pattern (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril 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. Here, the pattern is excessively ornate with additional swirling motifs and flourishing vases.
Object facts
- Title: Band with Scroll Pattern
- Date: 1500s
- Culture: Italy, Sicily
- Type: Lace
- Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
- Dimensions: Overall: 14.7 x 388.3 cm (5 13/16 x 152 7/8 in.)
- Collection: T - Lace
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1921.1139
A detail from the museum
Books of patterns for lace making and other needlework were aimed at well-to-do women and girls to encourage domestic virtue.
Collection credit
Gift of J. H. Wade
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