Midnight Sun
Object Details
- Artist
- Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Orange cloth ground with silver. Background has all-over design of minute voided vertical rectangles. Large-scale staggered horizontal repeat of circular medallion filled with small vertical rectangles alternately velvet and ground fabric.
- Credit Line
- Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg
- 1915
- Accession Number
- 1938-82-191-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal wrapped cotton core Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain compound foundation
- Dimensions
- H x W: 99.8 x 79.1 cm (39 5/16 x 31 1/8 in.)
- made in
- Lyon, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-82-191-a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq463c4870e-7f6b-41d8-903c-e1c418a88a0f
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