Dress Fabric
ca. 1700 (made)
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Dress fabric of brocaded silk damask. With a bizarre design in crimson damask consisting of a bulb-shape pierced with thorns, a fleshy stem and a broad dagger shape, and superimposed on it, and at times delineating this design, are tapering stems with bizarre fruit and sparse foliage brocaded in silver-gilt thread, frisé in places, and with small details filled in with bright pink silk bound in 3/1 twill. The weft of the damask is of yellow silk. There is a crude 4 cord selvedge.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk damask in silver-gilt thread |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk damask in silver-gilt thread, Italy, ca. 1700 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk damask. With a bizarre design in crimson damask consisting of a bulb-shape pierced with thorns, a fleshy stem and a broad dagger shape, and superimposed on it, and at times delineating this design, are tapering stems with bizarre fruit and sparse foliage brocaded in silver-gilt thread, frisé in places, and with small details filled in with bright pink silk bound in 3/1 twill. The weft of the damask is of yellow silk. There is a crude 4 cord selvedge. |
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| Accession number | T.169-1965 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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