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Medium:
Medium: silk Technique: warp-faced plain weave foundation with discontinuous supplementary wefts bound on the front in 3/1 twill and free-floating on the back.
Type:
woven textiles
Fragment
Made in:
France
Date:
18th century
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Square repeat of a branch with curving leaves and large blossoms [one red, one blue] growing out of a shell-shaped mound. The background is brown.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clara Waldek
Accession Number:
1972-81-6-a-1,2
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Textiles Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e2fa2049-e2d6-4a0d-b82a-14ab3063c613
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1972-81-6-a-1_2