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Dalmatic

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; braid and edge tape of silvered-metal strip and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and cotton, bobbin straight lace; ribbons of silk, plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; glazed.
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  • A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; braid and edge tape of silvered-metal strip and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and cotton, bobbin straight lace; ribbons of silk, plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; glazed.

Date:

c. 1785

Artist:

France

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Dalmatic

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1780–1790

Medium

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts; braid and edge tape of silvered-metal strip and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and cotton, bobbin straight lace; ribbons of silk, plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; glazed

Dimensions

109.3 × 112 cm (43 × 44 in.)

Credit Line

Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment

Reference Number

1993.325

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