Very small fragment with incomplete design. Uncut blue ground with large-scale floral and foliate motif in green, blue, salmon, and purple cut and uncut pile. Pink satin ground, shot with silver thread, shows in three minute motifs.
Credit: Gift of the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg
1750-1800
Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: cut and uncut voided supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (pile-on-pile velvet)
1939-57-8
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