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A work made of silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and two-color complementary ground wefts in twill interlacings.
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  • A work made of silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and two-color complementary ground wefts in twill interlacings.

Date:

c. 1712/15

Artist:

France

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1702–1725

Medium

Silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and two-color complementary ground wefts in twill interlacings

Dimensions

82.5 × 27.7 cm (32 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 57.3 cm (22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society

Reference Number

1911.355

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