Fragments
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White silk foundation fabric entirely covered in ground with secondary silver weft thread and silver frisé brocading forming elaborate decorative foliate motifs. Over this large-scale floral sprays in secondary areas, black and dark brown silk wefts and brocading in green silk and multicolored chenille.
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 the Estate of Herman A. Elsberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1939-57-27-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, silver thread Technique: plain compound twill with supplementary weft
label: Dimensions
content: a) Warp x Weft: 25.9 x 21.6 cm (10 3/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: b) Warp x Weft: 15.7 x 9.3 cm (6 3/16 x 3 11/16 in.)