Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Fragment of brocaded silk damask in the “bizarre” style. Red ground with details brocaded in metallic yarns and yellow, green and white silk, showing foliate curves, flowers and gourd-like shapes. Both selvedges present.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 17th–early 18th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: satin weave with supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 32.7 x 53 cm (12 7/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
