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{
    "localId": "114624",
    "label": "Forehead Cloth",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "114624",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Forehead Cloth",
    "description": "Sumptuous interlacing scrolls bearing flora and fruit embroidered with gold, silver, and silk thread decorate this set composed of a coif (cap see 1934.206) and forehead cloth (seen here). Individual motifs representing England appear within the scrolls, such as the Tudor rose, carnation, honeysuckle, and acorn. <br><br>Fashionable ladies wore coifs in the house as semiformal dress and in bed for receiving guests. The large loops along its lower edge were drawn together to keep it in place. Worn pointing backward, the forehead cloth functioned like a visor, supposedly preventing wrinkles and keeping off the sun and cold air.",
    "date": "late 1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.231",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80007446"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.231/1934.231_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.231/1934.231_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.231/1934.231_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 16.8 x 38.7 cm (6 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, Elizabethan Period, late 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1934.231"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery",
    "tombstone": "Forehead Cloth, late 1500s. England, Elizabethan Period, late 16th century. Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery; overall: 16.8 x 38.7 cm (6 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1934.231",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 114589,
            "description": "Coif, late 1500s. England, Elizabethan Period, late 16th century. Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery; overall: 21 x 42.2 cm (8 1/4 x 16 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1934.206"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Old Embroideries in the Museum: Three English Embroideries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 21, no. 8 (1934).",
            "page_number": "p. 123-25",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25137641"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 264",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.231",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:00:56.534000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.231/1934.231_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 114624,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Silk, gold and silver thread, sequins, padding, linen; embroidery",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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