About this artwork
This stamped furnishing fabric imitates, in design and technique, 18th-century velvets made in the Netherlands and known colloquially as “Utrecht velvet.” The city of Utrecht was a center of stamped velvet production. Manufacturers there impressed patterns into cut solid velvet with a heated copper roller. The compressed pile created the illusion of velvet woven with varying piles, which would have been more time consuming to produce. This reproduction catered to consumer desire for high-end, historically inspired furnishings.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artists
- William Morris (Designer) , Morris & Co. (Producer)
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Title
- Utrecht Velvet
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Places
- London (Object made in), England (Artist's nationality:), Great Britain (Object made in)
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Date
- Designed 1871
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Medium
- Cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; stamped
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Dimensions
- 233 × 87.4 cm (91 3/4 × 34 3/8 in.); Repeat: 58 × 28.6 cm (23 × 11 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Louise Lutz Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1991.166
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/121947/manifest.json
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