Fragment of a Band with Geometric Pattern and Floral Motif (1800s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Geometric Pattern and Floral Motif (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 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: Fragment of a Band with Geometric Pattern and Floral Motif
• Date: 1800s
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Cotton (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction)
• Dimensions: Overall: 5.9 x 48 cm (2 5/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1936.221

A detail from the museum

Books of patterns for lace making and other needlework were aimed at well-to-do women and girls to encourage domestic virtue.

Collection credit

The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. 1913.
• Underhill, Gertrude. "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936): 53-54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137765.

View the collection record

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