The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Textile with Flora
c. 1500s
Overall: 90.8 x 59.4 cm (35 3/4 x 23 3/8 in.); Mounted: 97.8 x 66.7 cm (38 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1954.321
Location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall
Description
This luxurious furnishing fabric might have been a wall covering or part of a long robe. The pattern of floral bouquets framed by curved leaves was popular in Italy, Spain, and Turkey during the 16th century. Darkened by oxidation, the fine silver weft, or horizontal, threads would have once shone brightly and glittered in the flickering candlelight that illuminated rooms before electricity. The preserved selvage edges reveal the width of the original loom; the edge’s color and style may even indicate the quality of the silk thread and the identity of the guild that wove it.- (Jose Viñas, Barcelona, Spain, Viñas No. 421).
- Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 2025-February 1, 2026).Renaissance lace rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2014-December 17, 2015).Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
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