Fragment of a Band with Abstract Pattern
1500s-1600s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment of a Band with Abstract Pattern, 1500s-1600s. Italy, 16th-17th century. Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions); unbleached and bleached linen (est.); overall: 6.4 x 26.4 cm (2 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.1127 The darker ground of unbleached linen allows the meandering pattern completed in the filet/lacis technique using bleached linen to prominently stand out. This piece has a counterpart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (20.186.29).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lace
- Formatted Medium
- needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions); unbleached and bleached linen (est.)
- Medium
- needle, lace, filet, lacis, knotted, ground, darned, directions, unbleached, bleached, linen, est
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.4 x 26.4 cm (2 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1920.1127
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Exhibitions
- Renaissance lace rotation
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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