About this artwork
This velvet features a design with two different lengths of cut pile on a voided ground. At the bottom of this length, there is a band woven with the same material and in the same pattern, executed with cut and uncut velvet. The uncut loops look markedly different in comparison to the cut pile, a distinction that highlights the way in which designers and weavers of velvet can exploit and manipulate velvet piles to create subtle or dramatic effects.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Mathevon et Bouvard (Producer)
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Title
- Panel
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Place
- Lyon (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1860–1880
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Medium
- Silk and cotton, twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut pile-on-pile voided velvet; band of partially uncut pile
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Dimensions
- 262.8 × 71.2 cm (103 1/2 × 28 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
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Reference Number
- 1988.522
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/110679/manifest.json