Lace Border (1800s): Art, History and Details
Lace Border at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s, Plain weave piña cloth: needle lace and embroidery. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Lace Border (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 consists of a fine, translucent ground fabric with a scattered pattern of small embroidered floral sprigs. The ground shows areas of loss, small holes, fraying, and darkening, while the embroidered and openwork areas remain largely intact.
Object facts
- Title: Lace Border
- Date: 1800s
- Culture: Philippines
- Type: Embroidery
- Technique: Plain weave piña cloth: needle lace and embroidery
- Dimensions: Overall: 44 x 89 cm (17 5/16 x 35 1/16 in.)
- Collection: T - Lace
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1928.11
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
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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