Description:
Twp pieces of drawloom-woven silk. The ground has faded to a gray color. Brocading colors in yellow, green, salmon, and purple. Yellow braid border. Patterned silks such as this example were some of the costly fabrics availabe for dress and furnishings in the 18th century. It could take many months to design, prepare the loom, and weave them. English and European centers of 18th-century silk weaving included Spitalfields (East London), Lyon (298 miles from Paris), Venice, and Amsterdam and Haarlem in Holland. There is evidence that these costly fabrics were imported and worn in New England, but in far fewer numbers.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; polychrome; Silk Link to share this object record:
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