Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment with a cut pile design of a circular composite floral rosette in red and green, alternating with an axial floral staff in red and green, repeated in staggered rows with small four-petal rosettes in orange and blue between each row in the interstices. The ground is yellow compound twill with flat strips of gold placed on alternating warps, which also carry the colored warps used to make the pile.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1942-38-2
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a twill weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 9.8 × 6.2 cm (3 7/8 × 2 7/16 in.)