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Textile
Unknown1750–1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Alternation of four S-curving vines (two bamboo-like; two seaweed-like). Each vine sends out shoots alternately left and right. Textile would have been used as a dress fabric and was probably inspired by a European woven silk.
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Details
- Title: Textile
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1750–1800
- Physical Dimensions: w550 x h545 cm
- Type: Textile
- Rights: Gift of Josephine Howell
- Medium: Medium: cotton Technique: plain weave. Mordants for 2 reds and 2 purples applied by pen and brush. Madder dyed. Blue applied over resist. Yellow applied by brush. (chintz)
- Provenance: ex. coll. Martin scrapbook
- Dimensions: Warp x Weft: 54.6 x 55 cm (21 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.)
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