Fabric

French

mid-18th century

Medium/Technique Silk and gold/silver-colored flat strip metal with gold-colored metallic wrapped on silk core thread brocade

Dimensions Overall: 68.5 x 46.5 cm (26 15/16 x 18 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number04.1683

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles

ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionCorded white silk ground, on which are waving bands of ribbon; woven with white silk. Curving in the opposite direction from these are bands of flowers and leaves woven with gold thread and narrow strips of metal, light and dark blue, green, and white silk. Bunches of flowers woven in pink, green, red, white, and yellow silk and silver thread, spring from these bands.