Lace Flounce
Flanders, Brussels (present-day Belgium)
1701-25
- Medium
- Linen, bobbin part lace
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 17.2 × 384.2 cm (6 3/4 × 151 1/4 in.); Repeat: W.: 59 cm (23 1/4 in.); Heading: H.: 6 cm (1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Flanders
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Edward E. Ayer in memory of Edward E. Ayer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The lace decorations that ornamented women’s dresses were separate from the dresses themselves. They required many yards of lace and, since fine lace was expensive, people sought substitutes that mimicked the light, translucent nature of the fabric. Here, the sleeve ruffles are made of a woven linen that has been skillfully embroidered to look like lace.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
