Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White silk warp. Wefts used together, of white, red, yellow, blue, green and pink silks and flat strips of silver. Background white with incomplete design of ogives formed by a large leaves with crowns at intersections, each ogive enclosing an urn with flowers. Clear colors appear only in narrow outlines of design where extra wefts are floated out. In rest of fabric white warps appear over mixed wefts thus dulling colors.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1896-1-125
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: compound weave, supplementary weft
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 33.1 x 25.4 cm (13 1/16 x 10 in.)