Dress fabric
date: label: Date
content: 1880–90
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fine gray-blue thin taffeta with narrow white stripes with small purple floral sprays in floats of extra warps.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Stockwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-54-6
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Dress fabric
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: Jacquard woven. Plain weave (grey with white stripe) with a supplementary warp (purple). In the centers of the flowers the supplementary warp shares a complementary function with the white warp, allowing it to float on the front. The long floats between motifs on the back were cut away after weaving a part of the finishing process. Loomed width: 23 inches