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Source Description
A range of techniques were used to create textural variation in this lace cloth: <em>buratto</em>, bobbin, and crochet. Figural motifs appear within the inserted buratto bands. Different birds, with crosses visible on their chests, crowned double-headed eagles, and feline figures facing a vessel may allude to the heraldic symbols of a particular family.
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Document identity
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114034
label
Cloth with Border of Crowned Double-Headed Eagles with Various Emblems, Birds, and Other Animals
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1
Source metadata
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114034
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object
title
Cloth with Border of Crowned Double-Headed Eagles with Various Emblems, Birds, and Other Animals
description
A range of techniques were used to create textural variation in this lace cloth: <em>buratto</em>, bobbin, and crochet. Figural motifs appear within the inserted buratto bands. Different birds, with crosses visible on their chests, crowned double-headed eagles, and feline figures facing a vessel may allude to the heraldic symbols of a particular family.
date
1800s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80006598
genreSpecific
Lace
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 62.4 x 132.3 cm (24 9/16 x 52 1/16 in.)
cul
Italy, 1800s
accession
1933.315
Source extras
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Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions), bobbin lace insert and edging, and crochet insert
tombstone
Cloth with Border of Crowned Double-Headed Eagles with Various Emblems, Birds, and Other Animals, 1800s. Italy, 1800s. Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions), bobbin lace insert and edging, and crochet insert; overall: 62.4 x 132.3 cm (24 9/16 x 52 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown, 1933.315
collection
T - Lace
didYouKnow
This cloth was given to the museum by Louise Tifft Brown, a native Clevelander who became an expert in lace while living in Venice for 35 years.
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Louise Tifft Brown Bequest of Lace." T<em>he Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 20, no. 10 (1933): 157-59.
page_number
157-159
citation
Ricci, Elisa. <em>Old Italian Lace</em>. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1913.
page_number
vol. 1 no. 23, 25
citation
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Milton Sonday. <em>Lace: In the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design</em>. 1982.
page_number
fig. 9
creditline
Bequest of Louise Tifft Brown
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2026-05-29 05:59:34.010000
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114034
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Textiles
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T - Lace
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Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, burato (twined ground and darned in two directions), bobbin lace insert and edging, and crochet insert
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1
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0
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photo
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