Kanton (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Julius Zimpel (Designer)

Title

Kanton (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Place

Vienna (Object made in)

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Made 1927

Medium

Cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces and by areas of diamond twill weave; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Inscriptions

Inscription (label on revese): WW

Dimensions

.138: 3.5 × 18.1 cm (1 3/8 × 7 1/8 in.) .139: 3 × 18 cm (1 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.) .140: 3.5 × 15.3 cm (1 3/8 × 6 in.) .141: 3.5 × 14.3 cm (1 3/8 × 5 5/8 in.) .142: 6.5 × 8.8 cm (2 1/2 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment

Reference Number

1991.83.138-142

Extended information about this artwork

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