Length of Woven Silk

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Textiles

1735-45

Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)
France, probably Lyon

In the 1730s a French designer named Jean Revel invented a technique for creating color shading in woven textile designs. This allowed for an increased appearance of volume in the depicted objects, such as the flowers, fruits, and leaves in this example.

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Department: Textiles

Artist: Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement
Title: Length of Woven Silk
Place: France (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1735–1745
Medium: Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip- wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts
Dimensions: 150.5 × 54.7 cm (59 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.); Repeat: 38.5 × 26.8 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: John C. and Margaret Hambleton Murphy Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 1987.22
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Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Textile Gallery, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Flowering Silks: 18th Century Designs from the Permanent Collection—A Tribute to Mildred L. Davison (1901–1995), Jun. 14–Oct. 1, 1995.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 66, Jan. 11-May 24, 2005.

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