Lace Lappet (1730s): Art, History and Details

Lace Lappet (1730s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Very few complete lace headdresses from the 1700s and 1800s (known as a ‘lace head’) survive, but three pieces formed this type of headwear. This narrow piece of lace formed one of the two lappets (streamers that frame the face) and is one part of a ‘lace head’. a complete lace headdress can be seen in CMA objects 1936.489 and 1936.490.

Object facts

• Title: Lace Lappet
• Date: 1730s
• Culture: Belgium, Binche(?)
• Type: Lace
• Technique: Linen: bobbin lace
• Dimensions: Average: 12.7 x 64.8 cm (5 x 25 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Lace
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1933.326

Collection credit

Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. “Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 10 (1933):

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