The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of February 18, 2025

Fragment of a Band with Geometric Pattern and Floral Motif
19th century
Overall: 5.9 x 48 cm (2 5/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Books of patterns 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 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.- Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. 1913. vol. 1 no. 94Underhill, Gertrude. "The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 4 (1936): 53-54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137765. 53-54
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.221