Cuff with Floral Vines
1800–1899
- Medium
- Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.9 x 22.2 cm (7 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Lace
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Unassigned, 1800s
About
In this lace cuff (one of a set, see 1936.226), scrolling vines with budding flowers emerge from a tied bow, creating a stylized bouquet. 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.