Forehead Cloth
late 1500s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Forehead Cloth, late 1500s. England, Elizabethan Period, late 16th century. Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery; overall: 16.8 x 38.7 cm (6 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1934.231
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.8 x 38.7 cm (6 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1934.231
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115, Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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