Dress Fabric
1700-1800 (made)
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| Place of origin |
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.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk; 1/3 twill on a satin ground |
| Brief description | Silk dress or furnishing fabric in a floral pattern in gold and silk in 1.3 twill on a satin ground, Chios, Greece, 18th century. |
| 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. |
| Style | |
| Gallery label | SILK
Turkish; 16th-17th century.
Floral pattern in gold and silk; 1.3 twill on a satin ground.(Used until 11/2003) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | 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. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 964&A-1898 |
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| Record created | December 5, 2003 |
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