Fragment

1750–1800

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Small-patterned or "miniature" velvet with a ground of uncut pink pile. Design of slender serpentine stem with heavy drooping blossom in pink and green cut and uncut pile. Design heightened by voided outline in white satin of the ground.

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Details

Title: Fragment
Date Created: 1750–1800
Location Created: France
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/71131
Medium: Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut voided supplementary warp pile in a satin foundation (pile-on-pile velvet)
Credit line: Gift of the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Craft France Satin Silk Textile Velvet