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Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterning ground wefts in 3:1 and 2:2 twill interlacing
Dimensions
247.5 × 52.3 cm (97 3/8 × 20 5/8 in.); Repeat: 69.5 × 25.6 cm (27 3/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation
Reference Number
1978.104
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery,
Selected Textile Acquisitions Since 1978, July 10–October 10, 1982
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