Cuff with Floral Vines (1800s): Art, History and Details
Cuff with Floral Vines 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.
Cuff with Floral Vines (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
In this lace cuff (one of a set, see 1936.226), scrolling vines with budding flowers emerge from a tied bow, creating a stylized bouquet. 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: Cuff with Floral Vines
- Date: 1800s
- Culture: Unassigned, 1800s
- Type: Lace
- Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
- Dimensions: Overall: 17.9 x 22.2 cm (7 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection: T - Lace
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1936.225
A detail from the museum
From the 15th century, lace cuffs were among the most popular ways to wear and display this costly textile.
Collection credit
The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection
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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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