Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Fragment of cut and uncut dark blue velvet in a pattern of leaf forms that alternately face up and down. Leaves are enclosed in a lattice framework.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 16th–17th century
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp (velvet) in a plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 29 × 10.5 cm (11 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
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