Textile
Unknown Maker
Maltese cross-shapes in two types of metal within circles of leaves (yellow silk) on a yellow-green background.
Credit: Gift of Margaret T. Corey
19th century
Medium: silk, cotton Technique: 7&1 satin (green silk warp, cotton weft) with continuous supplementary weft in various bindings (yellow silk) and discontinuous supplementary wefts (2 metals).
1991-24-1
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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