{"id":"cma-115971","titulo":{"en":"Embroidered Lace Flounce from the 1700s","es":"Volante de encaje bordado del siglo XVIII"},"titulo_original":"Lace Flounce","autor":"Unknown maker / Autor desconocido","fecha":"1700s","cultura":"Unassigned","tecnica":"Plain weave linen: embroidered","fuente":"Cleveland Museum of Art","licencia":"CC0-1.0","licencia_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","credito":"Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection","url_original":"https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.67","imagen_url":"https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.67/1936.67_web.jpg","ficha":{"en":{"titulo":"Embroidered Lace Flounce from the 1700s","se_ve":"A long, horizontal textile shown fully extended against a solid black background that emphasizes its translucency. It is a flounce or valance made of fine linen in a pale ivory-white, worked in white embroidery on a plain weave ground. The fabric is lightweight and semi-sheer, with the grid of warp and weft visible when backlit and soft folds indicating its fluid drape. It fills almost the entire frame, with a straight, reinforced upper edge made as a narrow plain header for gathering or sewing, divided into several panels joined by faint vertical seams. The central field is densely covered with a symmetrical, repeating pattern of stylized foliate motifs: vase or urn shapes sprouting pineapples, pomegranates and leaves, interlaced with scrolling tendrils and small blossoms. The embroidery creates a matte, slightly raised texture against the more open, subtly glossy ground. The lower edge finishes in a scalloped, picot-like border with small pointed teeth. Lighting is even and diffused, without harsh shadows, revealing the delicate contrast between thread and ground and the precision of the handwork.","contexto":"Source data from the Cleveland Museum of Art lists the work as Lace Flounce by an unknown maker, dated to the 1700s. Its culture is recorded as Unassigned and it is housed in the Textiles department under the Embroidery category. The technique is given as plain weave linen: embroidered. It belongs to The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection. No further source description or specific place of origin is provided. It is probably a decorative flounce intended for dress or interior furnishing, a common textile type in the 18th century when white embroidered linen and lace were highly prized for their refinement and craftsmanship.","como_mirarla":"First follow the repeating rhythm of the pattern across the width, then focus on a single repeat to pick out the vase and fruit at its center. Notice how light passes through the linen, making the sheer ground glow against the opaque embroidery. The toothed lower border and the vertical joining seams show it was made to be gathered and worn.","dato_curioso":"White-on-white embroidery, often called whitework, creates its design through texture and raised stitch alone without color, and was so admired that it was used to imitate the look of handmade needle and bobbin lace.","preguntas":["How does the repetition of the foliate motifs affect the sense of movement or order in the design?","How does your reading change when you imagine this flounce gathered on an 18th-century sleeve or bed hanging?","What does the delicacy and labor-intensive nature of this embroidery suggest about who might have made and worn it?"]},"es":{"titulo":"Volante de encaje bordado del siglo XVIII","se_ve":"Pieza textil horizontal y alargada, fotografiada extendida sobre un fondo negro que acentúa su translucidez. Se trata de un volante o flounce de lino en tono marfil pálido, casi blanco, con bordado blanco sobre ligamento tafetán. La tela es fina, ligera y semitransparente, con la trama del tejido visible al trasluz y leves arrugas que revelan su flexibilidad. Ocupa casi todo el encuadre, con el borde superior recto y reforzado por una cinta lisa para fruncir o coser, dividido en varios paños unidos por costuras verticales discretas pero visibles. El campo central está cubierto por un patrón simétrico y repetitivo que alterna motivos vegetales estilizados: jarrones o ánforas de los que brotan piñas, granadas y hojas, entrelazados con zarcillos curvos y flores pequeñas. El bordado crea un relieve mate sobre la base más brillante y abierta. El borde inferior termina en ondas con picos en forma de festón dentado. La luz es difusa y pareja, sin sombras duras, lo que permite apreciar el contraste sutil entre hilo y fondo y la delicadeza del trabajo manual.","contexto":"Los datos de la fuente del Cleveland Museum of Art identifican la obra como Lace Flounce, con autor desconocido y fechada en los años 1700. Su cultura figura como no asignada y pertenece al departamento de Textiles, categoría Bordado. La técnica registrada es tejido liso de lino bordado. Forma parte de The Frances McIntosh Sherwin Collection. No se proporciona descripción adicional ni lugar específico de elaboración. Probablemente corresponde a un volante decorativo usado en indumentaria o en decoración de interiores, tipología común en Europa durante el siglo XVIII, cuando el encaje y el bordado blanco sobre lino eran muy apreciados por su refinamiento y trabajo artesanal.","como_mirarla":"Observa primero el ritmo repetitivo del patrón a lo ancho de la pieza y luego acércate a un solo módulo para distinguir el jarrón y la fruta. Nota cómo la luz atraviesa el lino y contrasta el fondo traslúcido con el bordado opaco. El borde inferior dentado y las costuras verticales revelan que es un textil hecho para ser usado y fruncido.","dato_curioso":"El bordado blanco sobre blanco, conocido como whitework, logra su efecto solo con la textura y el relieve del hilo, sin necesidad de color, y era tan valorado que permitía imitar la apariencia del encaje hecho a mano con aguja o bolillos.","preguntas":["¿Qué sensación de movimiento o ritmo te transmite la repetición de los motivos vegetales?","¿Cómo cambia tu percepción de la pieza al imaginarla fruncida sobre una manga o una cama en el siglo XVIII?","¿Qué te dice la delicadeza y el tiempo requerido para este bordado sobre quién pudo haberlo hecho y usado?"]}},"etiquetas":{"en":["textile","embroidery","lace","linen","18th century","foliate motif","ornament","whitework","craftsmanship","flounce","late baroque","rococo","decorative"],"es":["textil","bordado","encaje","lino","siglo xviii","motivo vegetal","ornamento","blanco sobre blanco","artesania","volante","barroco tardio","rococo","decorativo"]},"objetos":["volante de encaje","tela de lino","bordado blanco","motivo de jarrón","piña bordada","hojas estilizadas","borde festoneado","costura vertical"],"colores":["#F5F0E6","#E8E0C9","#0A0A0A","#D9D0B8","#BEB7A6"],"animo":["delicado","sereno","refinado"],"epoca":"1700s / siglo XVIII","certeza":"media","advertencias":[],"capa":{"voces":[{"guia":"la restauradora","en":"I focus on what the photo reveals about its making and its fragility. I see a very fine linen in pale ivory, almost white, with white-on-white embroidery on tabby weave, so light that it lets light through and shows its weave. At the top a straight tape for gathering, then several panels joined by vertical seams still visible. The matte relief of the thread draws vases with pinecones and pomegranates among curving tendrils. Below, the toothed scalloped edge ripples softly, with slight wrinkles that remind us it is a flexible, living textile.","es":"Me detengo en lo que la foto revela sobre su hechura y su fragilidad. Veo un lino finísimo color marfil pálido, casi blanco, bordado en blanco sobre tafetán, tan ligero que deja pasar la luz y muestra su trama. Arriba una cinta recta para fruncir, luego varios paños unidos por costuras verticales que aún se notan. El relieve mate del hilo dibuja jarrones con piñas y granadas entre zarcillos curvos. Abajo el festón dentado ondula suave, con arrugas leves que recuerdan que es un textil flexible y vivo."},{"guia":"el astrónomo aficionado","en":"To me this flounce looks like an embroidered sky turned inside out. The black background works like night and makes the ivory linen glow like a long horizontal constellation. The white embroidery creates symmetrical maps: vases like nebulae sprouting pinecones, pomegranates and leaves linked by tendrils that look like orbits. The sheer fabric filters light like stardust. Even the toothed scalloped lower edge recalls the jagged profile of a horizon seen through a telescope, delicate and precisely charted.","es":"Para mí este volante parece un cielo bordado puesto al revés. El fondo negro funciona como la noche y hace que el lino marfil brille como una constelación alargada y horizontal. El bordado blanco crea mapas simétricos: jarrones que son como nebulosas de donde brotan piñas, granadas y hojas conectadas por zarcillos que parecen órbitas. La tela semitransparente deja filtrar la luz como polvo de estrellas. Hasta el borde inferior en festón dentado evoca el perfil recortado de un horizonte observado con telescopio."},{"guia":"la niña de ocho años","en":"It looks like a long cloud laid on a black table so we can see it better. It is light ivory, almost white, and full of little stitched drawings that look puffy to the touch. I see tiny vases with pinecones and leaves curled like springs. At the top there is a straight strip and little vertical lines where the pieces were sewn together. At the bottom it ends in wavy little points, like the teeth of a paper castle. If you touched it, it would feel very soft and cool.","es":"Parece una nube larga que pusieron sobre una mesa negra para verla mejor. Es de color marfil clarito, casi blanco, y está llena de dibujitos con hilo que se sienten abultaditos. Veo jarroncitos con piñas y hojitas enroscadas como resortes. Arriba tiene una tirita recta y unas rayitas verticales donde cosieron los pedazos. Abajo termina en piquitos en forma de ondas, como los dientes de un castillo de papel. Si la tocas debe ser muy suave y fresquita."}],"retos":[{"pregunta":{"en":"What color is the background where the flounce is spread to highlight its translucency?","es":"¿Sobre qué color de fondo está extendido el volante para resaltar su transparencia?"},"pista":{"en":"Look behind the light fabric, it is a very dark color that makes the ivory glow.","es":"Mira detrás de la tela clara, es un color muy oscuro que hace brillar el marfil."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"What central motif repeats and sprouts pinecones and pomegranates?","es":"¿Qué motivo central se repite y del cual brotan piñas y granadas?"},"pista":{"en":"Look for a symmetrical vessel shape with leaves and fruits coming out of it.","es":"Busca una forma de vasija simétrica de la que salen hojas y frutos."}},{"pregunta":{"en":"What does the lower edge of the flounce look like?","es":"¿Cómo es el borde inferior del volante?"},"pista":{"en":"Check the bottom edge, it is not straight, it has waves with little points.","es":"Observa la orilla de abajo, no es recta, tiene ondas con piquitos."}}],"conexiones":["bordado blanco sobre blanco","lino semitransparente y tafetán","motivo vegetal de jarrón con piñas y granadas","borde festoneado dentado","volante o flounce para indumentaria","costuras verticales y cinta para fruncir","estética barroco tardío y rococó del siglo XVIII","artesanía textil y trabajo manual"]},"salas":[],"escrita_por":"muse-spark-open-1026"}