Wedge-shaped piece of brown silk velvet as for a skirt. Asymmetrical pattern of geometric forms, fruit and s-curves.
Credit: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe
1850-1900
Medium: silk Technique: voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in satin ground with cut and uncut pile
1962-233-34
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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