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Dress fabric

Dress fabric

  • Place of origin:

    Turkey (made)

  • Date:

    1600-1700 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Woven silk; 1/3 twill on a satin ground

  • Museum number:

    964&A-1898

  • Gallery location:

    In store

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This light-weight silk may have been used as a summer furnishing fabric and also as a dress fabric. The small-scale pattern of wavy parallel stems, very fashionable in the 17th century, includes hyacinths and rose buds and small pomegranate fruit which have split open to reveal their ripening seeds.

Physical description

Dress fabric of woven silk with a small-scale pattern of wavy parallel stems bearing pomegranate fruit (split open to reveal the seeds), hyacinths and rose buds.

Place of Origin

Turkey (made)

Date

1600-1700 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Woven silk; 1/3 twill on a satin ground

Descriptive line

Silk dress fabric in a floral pattern in gold and silk in 1.3 twill on a satin ground, Turkey, 16th to 17th century.

Labels and date

SILK
Turkish; 16th-17th century.
Floral pattern in gold and silk; 1.3 twill on a satin ground. [Used until 11/2003]

Materials

Silk

Techniques

Weaving

Subjects depicted

Roses; Pomegranates; Hyacinth

Categories

Textiles; Clothing

Collection code

MES

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