Border with Floral Motifs (1800s): Art, History and Details
Border with Floral Motifs at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s, Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Border with Floral Motifs (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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. Here, the pattern is unusually ornate with additional swirling and flowering motifs.
Object facts
- Title: Border with Floral Motifs
- Date: 1800s
- Culture: Italy, Sardinia
- Type: Lace
- Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
- Dimensions: Overall: 27.9 x 316.2 cm (11 x 124 1/2 in.)
- Collection: T - Lace
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1933.317
A detail from the museum
This lace 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.
Collection credit
Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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