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Cloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern
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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 lineCloth with Border of Vegetal Pattern, 1800s. Italy, 1800s. Bleached plain weave linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in two directions); overall: 91 x 141.7 cm (35 13/16 x 55 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown, 1933.336
