Border with Geometric Patterns
Unknown Artist
c. 1850–70
Medium
Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction); bleached linen (est.) and cotton (est.)
Dimensions
18.4 × 108 cm
Classification
Lace
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Educational Purchase Fund
Accession Number
1923.877
About this artwork
This piece of lace is simple and honest in its decorative quality. The focus is on the thick and graphic darning, or area of woven pattern, depicts triangular and geometric motifs. In addition to the knotting of the thread (filet/lacis technique), the lace maker used thicker thread to create the bold and heavy pattern against the unadorned diamond ground netting.