Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular white damask towel with figural cartouche in center surrounded by detached flowers and blue border with late 16th century style dragons facing an urn.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 19th–early 20th century
- Medium
- Medium: linen, cotton Technique: jacquard woven. Field: 8-harness satin damask; Borders: supplementary blue cotton weft in the warp, float face of the 8-harness satin bound on the surface as weft face 8-harness satin. The supplementary wefts floated free on the back from area to area – the floats later trimmed.
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 106 x 55 cm (41 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Towel
