The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 27, 2023

Fragment of a Band with Geometric Pattern and Floral Motif

19th century

Italy, 19th century

Needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in one direction); cotton (est.)

Overall: 5.9 x 48 cm (2 5/16 x 18 7/8 in.)

The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection 1936.221

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Citations
Ricci, Elisa. Old Italian Lace. 1913. vol. 1 no. 94
Underhill, 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
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.221