Fragment of Band with Vegetal Motifs (1600s): Art, History and Details

Fragment of Band with Vegetal Motifs (1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Textiles often incorporate multiple needlework techniques within a single piece. The insert in the center of this piece of lace is made using the cutwork technique. In cutwork, portions of the textile ground, such as a linen or cotton cloth, are cut away and threads are removed to create holes. The edges of the hole are then reinforced with embroidery and a pattern of needle lace can be created within the perimeter. Rather than adding to the cloth to create a design, the craftsperson removes threads to fabricate a pattern. The cutwork may have been inserted to replace a damaged area.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment of Band with Vegetal Motifs
• Date: 1600s
• Culture: Spain
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions) and cutwork insertion
• Dimensions: Overall: 31.5 x 55.6 cm (12 3/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1919.778

A detail from the museum

Myrta Leonora Jones, the donor of this lace, 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.

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