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Fragments
19th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Fragment of a formal, symmetrical pattern of long pointed leaves framing a stem with three globe-like blossoms. The pattern is in shades of gold outlined in deep red.
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Details
- Title: Fragments
- Date Created: 19th century
- Location Created: Russia
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 8-harness satin patterned by a 3/1 twill supplementary fabric structure and brocaded supplementary wefts bound with the supplementary fabric structure, one of the wefts of the supplementary fabric is bound by the warps of the foundation fabric for a change in surface effect, the foundation fabric is entirely covered by the wefts of the supplementary fabric–it acts as a support for the gold
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Eric Isenberger
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