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Fragment of a Band with Vines and Leaves
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About this work
A scrolling vine with budding vegetation or a tendril 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 Vines and Leaves, 1600s. Italy, 1600s. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one and two directions); overall: 12.7 x 64.8 cm (5 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection, 1936.223
