Description:
Fragment of an 18th-century drawloom-woven (brocaded) silk that has been made into a table cover. This example may be a type known as a cordonnet, with a tightly twisted brocaded thread featured in some of the designs. Drawloom-woven silks were some of the most expensive textiles produced in the 17th and 18th centuries. Several centers in England (Spitalfields, London) and Europe (France, Spain, and Italy) excelled in various types by the 18th century. Some centers specialized in dress silks, while others focused on larger, furnishing silks. In the mid-20th-century, yardage of precious textiles like this were sometimes cut down to make smaller decorative embellishments in historic interior displays for museums and private homes.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; polychrome; Silk Link to share this object record:
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