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Fragment of a Band with Winding Design and Tendrils
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment of a Band with Winding Design and Tendrils, 1500s. Italy. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions); bleached linen (est.); overall: 9.5 x 42.3 cm (3 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1920.1155
