Textile
Cooper Hewitt

Textile

Séguin et Cie · ca. 1805

Medium: silk, metal-wrapped silk threads, smooth and frisé Technique: 8-harness satin patterned with continuous and discontinuous supplementary wefts and supplementary binding warp
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Border woven to match 1937-63-3. Neo-classical pattern of laurel wreath and acanthus leaves in the form of a lyre brocaded in gold thread on a bright blue satin ground with a monochrome figure of slender leaves; with wide and narrown gold bands top and bottom.

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