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Cravat end
Unknownearly 18th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Cravat end of Brussels-style lace with a design of undulating, foliated pattern entwined and surrounded by symmetrically arranged floral and foliated forms.
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Details
- Title: Cravat end
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: early 18th century
- Type: Cravat end
- Rights: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium: Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace
- Viewing Notes: In the Brussels technique of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the bobbin-made motifs are held together by added 4-element braids (often decorated with picots) which zigzag back and forth linking the edges of motifs. The patterned fillings were also added.-From Lace Exhibition, August 3 - November 7, 1982
- Provenance: ex-collection: Alfred Lescure
- Exhibitions: Cooper Union Museum: "The Greenleaf Collection, Textile Arts from the 16th to the Early 19th Century," 22 Jan. – 9 May 1964, p. 21, no. 325.
- Dimensions: H x W: 31 x 42 cm (12 3/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
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