Fragment
Unknown Maker
Fragment of a cream-colored silk with diagonally intersecting lattice of silver and cream-colored threads. Over this lattice are yellow pieces of fruit and delicate curving floral vines in green, red and blue-gray.
late 18th century
Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: warp-faced plain weave patterned by continuous and discontinuous weft floats
1972-6-17
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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