Textile
Unknown Maker
Patterned silk with a blue ground and an 'S' curve element of a flowering branch intertwined with a ribbon of lace.
Credit: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
1765-68
Medium: silk Technique: float weave patterning: plain weave with supplementary warps and discontinuous supplementary weft patterning, either free floating or bound on the front as a 1\3 twill
1962-56-73
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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