Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . fabrics. In allthere were about twenty specimens in the filet room. Representing the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies in the other galleries were covers and spreadsof large dimensions of drawn linen embroidered in color,and white embroidered linen and muslin as well as the muchtreasured early cut-work. Many of the latter pieces werecombined with squares and bands of filet. The early Venetian needlepoint and bobbin lace ex-pressed the taste of the sumptuous period when they adornednot only the altars and church vestments but also the at-tire of the high
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . fabrics. In allthere were about twenty specimens in the filet room. Representing the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies in the other galleries were covers and spreadsof large dimensions of drawn linen embroidered in color,and white embroidered linen and muslin as well as the muchtreasured early cut-work. Many of the latter pieces werecombined with squares and bands of filet. The early Venetian needlepoint and bobbin lace ex-pressed the taste of the sumptuous period when they adornednot only the altars and church vestments but also the at-tire of the high born and wealthy. There was a numberof beautiful examples in the exhibition. One of puntoin aria owned by the Pratt Institute was an altarfrontal about eight feet long and eighteen inches design shows great diversity of stitches. More thanfifteen varieties are used to define the birds, flowers andfoliage which form the motive. The center is an eagle,erect with outstretched wings, his claws grasping the stems 18-i. End section of the foregoing. Scroll carried out with the pink, branch of olive,tuberose, strawberry blossom leaves and fruit, rose, hyacinth, lily of the valleyand a bird. Italian. I6th century. Lent by the Pratt Institute. of a star-like flower whose tendrils represent the two endsof long flowing arabesques. Above, the sprays blossomwith jasmine flowers while below they branch off into tulipforms. Other flowers carrying out the scroll are the tigerlily, the pink, a vigorously drawn branch of olive, the tu-berose, the strawberry blossom with leaves and fruit, andat either end a scroll with the rose as central point. Aspray of hyacinth and another of the lily of the valley formthe detail of each end of the pattern, while perched here andthere upon stem or curling leaf are birds pecking at thefruit suspended above them. The background is an openrectangular mesh edged by a very narrow punto in aria bor-der, the color a soft rich cream. A piece of early Italian
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