Fragment of a Band with Geometric Motif (1600s–1700s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Geometric Motif (1600s–1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The thick and graphic darning, or area of woven pattern, depicts triangular and circular 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.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of a Band with Geometric Motif
• Date: 1600s–1700s
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions)
• Dimensions: Overall: 5.5 x 15.8 cm (2 3/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1919.784

A detail from the museum

Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this work, was a women’s rights activist in Cleveland in the early 20th century.

Collection credit

Gift of Myrta Leonora Jones

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 10 (1919): 162.

View the collection record

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