# Cravat End

- By: Flanders, Brussels
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Peabody through the Antiquarian Society
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/63763)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/3cccac2d-802d-225a-0c7c-fff396bd2b31/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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