Cloth with Border of Vegetal Motifs and Insertion with Bird Motifs
1700s
- Medium
- Plain weave wool with needle lace, burato insertion (twined ground and darned in two directions), filet/lacis border and edging (knotted ground and darned in one direction), drawn work, and embroidery; bleached linen (est.), wool (est.),…
- Classification
- Lace
- Dimensions
- Overall: 72.6 x 233.6 cm (28 9/16 x 91 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Cyprus ?, 1700s
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Textiles often incorporate multiple needlework techniques within a single piece. One of the techniques in this example of lace is called cutwork. In cutwork, portions of the textile ground, such as a linen or cotton cloth, are cut away and threads are removed to create holes. The edges of the hole are then reinforced with embroidery and a pattern of needle lace can be created within the perimeter. Rather than adding to the cloth to create a design, the craftsperson removes threads to fabricate a pattern.
