Fragments
Cooper Hewitt

Fragments

19th century

Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 8-harness satin patterned by a 3/1 twill supplementary fabric structure and brocaded supplementary wefts bound with the supplementary fabric structure, one of the wefts of the supplementary fabric is bound by the warps of the foundation fabric for a change in surface effect, the foundation fabric is entirely covered by the wefts of the supplementary fabric–it acts as a support for the gold
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Cooper Hewitt

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