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Length of Woven Silk

Length of Woven Silk

Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808) France, probably Lyon
Date
1735-45
Medium
Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip- wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts
Dimensions
150.5 × 54.7 cm (59 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.); Repeat: 38.5 × 26.8 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
Department
Textiles
Credit line
John C. and Margaret Hambleton Murphy Memorial Fund