The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern

Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern

19th century
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This cloth was given to the museum by Louise Tifft Brown, a native Clevelander who became an expert in lace while living in Venice for 35 years.

Description

A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril motif 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.
  • Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 20, no. 10 (1933): 157-59. 157-159 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.336