Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Woven length has a symmetrical pattern of a meandering floral design with a yellow-green vine with pink, blue, purple, and brown brocaded flowers superimposed on a feathery-leaf patter on a toned gold ground. The pink ground forms the outlines of the feathery leaf pattern.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 18th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Harvey Smith
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 4-harness irregular twill weave patterned by floats of two complementary wefts, discontinuous supplementary weft (brocade), some weft floats bound by a supplementary warp in 3/1 twill
- Type
- woven textiles
- Textile
