Fragment of a Band with Vines and Leaves (1600s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of a Band with Vines and Leaves (1600s) 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 Vines and Leaves
• Date: 1600s
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions)
• Dimensions: Overall: 12.7 x 64.8 cm (5 x 25 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1936.223

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

• Underhill, Gertrude. "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936): 53-54.
• Foschi, Pier Francesco, and Nelda Damiano. Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence. Athens : Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2023.

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