Textile
Cooper Hewitt

Textile

17th century

Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: compound twill, stamped, with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Gold metallic ground with a stamped design of diagonal lines crossing in groups of three, forming diamond-shaped lozenges. Within each, brocaded roses alternating with bunches of violets in straight repeat. In purple, blue, green, pink, silver and gold.

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