Embroidered Textile (1800s): Art, History and Details

Embroidered Textile (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This rectangular textile is composed of a fine, translucent ground fabric with a scattered pattern of small embroidered floral sprigs. Along the lower edge is a continuous band of oval medallions framed by embroidered scrolling elements, each enclosing a central floral motif executed in calado or another openwork technique. Vertical floral panels separate the medallions, and the edge terminates in a scalloped openwork border.

Object facts

• Title: Embroidered Textile
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Philippines
• Type: Embroidery
• Technique: Plain weave piña cloth: needle lace and embroidery
• Dimensions: Overall: 43.5 x 88.5 cm (17 1/8 x 34 13/16 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1928.9

A detail from the museum

This textile may be a fragment from the sleeves of a baro-camisa garment.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. O. E. Kelsey

View the collection record

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