Fragments
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragments cut from a continuous pattern of gold or silver diamond-shaped floral forms set in a loose diamond lattice made of green, salmon, and ivory blossoms. The background would have been gold or silver. Each fragment has one selvage intact.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Spain
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rose Stepanek
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1972-24-2-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal Technique: Combination of two stuctures: 4 harness irregular twill [foundation] plus 3/1 twill \ [supplementary facing and pattern]. Foundation fabric has an integrated set of supplementary wefts free floating on the front to pattern. The supplementary fabric has a set of two complementary weft faces the pattern background covering the 4 harness twill, and the other backs the discontinuous wefts. The discontinuous supplementary wefts pattern and are bound by the interlaces with the foundation wefts in 2/2 twill.