Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern (1800s): Art, History and Details

Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern (1800s) 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 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.

Object facts

• Title: Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached plain weave linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)
• Dimensions: Overall: 91 x 141.7 cm (35 13/16 x 55 13/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1933.336

A detail from the museum

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.

Collection credit

Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 10 (1933): 157-59.

View the collection record

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