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Reticella lace

Cecilia HEFFER
Reticella lace
 2007

Medium
screenprinted silk (Shantung), cotton-polyester thread

Measurements
176.5 × 58.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2011
© Cecilia Heffer

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales

Accession Number
2011.87

Department
Australian Fashion and Textiles

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest

Physical description
Textile length constructed from circular pieces of Shantung silk connected together in a grid-like fashion by machine stitched lines of thread. The circles are screenprinted with Venetian braid patterns taken from a 16th century pattern book in the lace study collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

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