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Woven portrait
Michel-Marie Carquillat, Michel-Marie Carquillat (French, 1803–1884)mid-19th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Small piece of silk with two woven pictures: on top, a portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) after a portrait by Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796-1860). Below, a picture of a loom with the Jacquard punch-card mechanism. Woven on a loom equipped with a Jacquard mechanism by Carquillat (died 1884).
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Details
- Title: Woven portrait
- Creator: Michel-Marie Carquillat, Michel-Marie Carquillat (French, 1803–1884)
- Date Created: mid-19th century
- Location Created: France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven: warp-faced plain weave (white) with supplementary weft patterning (black) Label: jacquard-woven silk
- Credit line: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
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