Cushion Cover
1720-1740 (made)
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Cushion cover of voided velvet, with a red and green cut silk pile on a brocaded ground. Staggered rows of floral sprigs fill the main field. The two types are arranged in alternate rows. The border contains a floral meander pattern, while the lappet pattern at either end shows floral sprays in a vase.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Satin foundation structure: 4/1 satin; warp: silk, ivory, thin; weft: cotton, ivory, single ply.
Satin and velvet warp order 3-1-2.
Velvet structure, red and green; pile counts, warps 12, along weft 14. (Less combed or more matted, unruly).
Binding weft threads: silk, super-skinny; white.
Brocade structure: wholly brocaded? part 4/1 twill, count 17. Shots between pile 2, metal and twist: gilt, Z tightness of wrap: super.
Selvedges: 2 cm.
Selvedges have two bands of weaving; inner one is a broken twill; outer one is a warp-faced satin that still shows some cotton. They are separated by a double-ply strand plied S.
On the back, the cotton weft is exposed more than is usual. Is it possible the velvet warps, which are caught on the back by the binding weft, are in fact bound less trightly, so as they pull out, they expose some of the cotton? |
| Brief description | Cushion cover of voided velvet, the pattern in red and green pile against a brocaded ground. |
| Physical description | Cushion cover of voided velvet, with a red and green cut silk pile on a brocaded ground. Staggered rows of floral sprigs fill the main field. The two types are arranged in alternate rows. The border contains a floral meander pattern, while the lappet pattern at either end shows floral sprays in a vase. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Amanda Phillips, "Flourishing Success", HALI, no. 212, Summer 2022, pp. 67-68, ill. 10. |
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| Accession number | 103-1878 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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