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Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Fragment of a Band with Winding Design and Tendrils

1500s

Italy, 1500s

Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions); bleached linen (est.)
Overall: 9.5 x 42.3 cm (3 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1155
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Pattern books for lace-making and other needlework were aimed at well-to-do women and girls to encourage domestic virtue.

Description

A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril motif 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.
  • Ida Schiff Collection
    J.H. Wade
    1920-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Milliken, William Mathewson. “Lace and Its Development: I. The Beginnings.” Antiques 1 (May 1922): 211-216. p. 215, no. 9
    Simeon, Margaret. The History of Lace. London: Stainer and Bell, 1979. plate 7
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