Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment
A leaf spiral, from which boughs rise, with threads hanging obliquely downward; a leaf bough rising from the next staggered horizontal row. Both motifs in opposite direction. White stripe at left.
Credit: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1815-1840
Gouache on oily tracing paper, mounted
1909-13-86
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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