Fragments
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Eric Isenberger
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1967-71-1-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragments
- 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
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft (a): 86 x 100 cm (33 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
- Warp x Weft (b): 35 x 42 cm (13 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.)
- made in
- Russia
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1967-71-1-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a70e0845-9326-4381-b9fe-9651ebcb995e
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