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Lace Insertion and Edging
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About this work
This piece of lace, featuring doves and dromedaries, was created without a model and "a tutte coppie," meaning the ground and design was worked at the same time, rather than separately and then later combined.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLace Insertion and Edging, 1600s–1700s. Italy, Abruzzi, Pescocostanzo(?). Bobbin lace; average: 8 x 32.7 cm (3 1/8 x 12 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.1040
