Cravat End
1730-50
- Medium
- Linen, needle lace
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 35.1 cm (11 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Flanders
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Howard Peabody through the Antiquarian Society
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Formal occasions required lace accessories for men as well as for women. These cravat ends would have been attached to a long rectangle of plain linen that was tied around the neck and knotted in the front to display the decorative lace ends. Only these ends have survived.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
