Furnishing Fabric
1600-1640 (made)
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This woven furnishing fabric has a yellow silk ground, its design of birds and flowers made with patterning wefts of blue cotton. Traces of silk fringe suggest that it may have been used as a wall-hanging or canopy.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Woven silk and cotton |
Brief description | double cloth, 1580-1630, Italian ?; Birds on floral lattice, blue cotton yellow silk |
Physical description | A repeating pattern in blue incorporating two birds is on a gold ground. |
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Summary | This woven furnishing fabric has a yellow silk ground, its design of birds and flowers made with patterning wefts of blue cotton. Traces of silk fringe suggest that it may have been used as a wall-hanging or canopy. |
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Accession number | 529B-1884 |
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Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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