Border with Geometric Patterns (c. 1850–70): Art, History and Details

Border with Geometric Patterns (c. 1850–70) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This piece of lace is simple and honest in its decorative quality. The focus is on the thick and graphic darning, or area of woven pattern, depicts triangular and geometric motifs. In addition to the knotting of the thread (filet/lacis technique), the lace maker used thicker thread to create the bold and heavy pattern against the unadorned diamond ground netting.

Object facts

• Title: Border with Geometric Patterns
• Date: c. 1850–70
• Culture: Spain, c. 1850-70
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.) and cotton (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 18.4 x 108 cm (7 1/4 x 42 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1923.877

A detail from the museum

The word lace derives from the Latin laqueus, meaning noose.

Collection credit

Educational Purchase Fund

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