silk, metal | Media | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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We also have media similar to silk, metal, such as silk and wool(?) or silk, metal, wool or sillk, metal or silk metal or silk and wool

Each has four large tassels hanging from lattice arrangement of thick plaited silk cords, clasped by three large decorated rosettes half way up and by two smaller ones at the top. Tassels (20 cm long) have deep tops with tufting border and silk lattice over silver thread wound on woven core. Pink silk; silver; silver metal threads.

Tassel (France)
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
1951-105-1-b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Each has four large tassels hanging from lattice arrangement of thick plaited silk cords, clasped by three large decorated rosettes half way up and by two smaller ones at the top. Tassels (20 cm long) have deep tops with tufting border and silk lattice over silver thread wound on woven core. Pink silk; silver; silver metal threads.

Tassel (France)
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
1951-105-1-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Wall pocket with three pockets of rose silk, decorated with metal trimming laid on in high relief in symmetrical designs. Trimmed with looped fringe.

Wall Pocket (Italy), late 17th–early 18th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-56

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Wall pocket in yellow silk with embroidery in metal threads and applique of silk of human figures with painted faces.

Wall Pocket (Germany), late 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-55

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 6 images of this object.

Wall pocket with three pockets, in red silk velvet embroidered in gold and silver threads in heavy symmetrical floral designs. Pockets outlined with narrow silver lace, and whole edged with same.

Wall Pocket (Italy), 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-52

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Wall pocket in red satin, embroidered in polychrome silks and metal threads. Four pockets and a shaped top, each decorated with flowers, worked in satin stitch and shaded, and outlined with metal thread and with couched metal thread for foliage. Fruit, wheat, and birds also feature in the design. Edged with gold lace, bound with linen tape and backed with red brocatelle.

Wall Pocket, 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-51

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 7 images of this object.

Wall pocket with two pockets and a rounded top. Made from coral-colored silk taffeta, embroidered in gold and silver threads. The lower pocket has a house surrounded by flowering vines. The upper pocket shows a cardinal's hat with flowering vines. At the top, a bishop's mitre with a red stone inset, and crossed croziers. Trimmed with gold fringe and gold lace. Pockets lined with blue silk. Backed with leather.

Wall Pocket, 18th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf Esq. in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
1950-121-50

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Flowers contained in an ogival shaped latticework.

Textile
silk, metal.
1945-38-4

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Purse, with the upper section knitted in blue silk in a lozenge pattern with openwork borders. The lower section is a a grid of laid blue silk cords interlaced and looped with gold and silver-wrapped silks, and the bottom tip looping using foil-wrapped silk (gold and silver).

Purse, 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Mrs. Harley Lord Stowell.
1944-57-10

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Small bag made from four sections of yellow silk brocaded with pink, green and white silk and silver metallic thread in floral desing. Bound with metal thread galoon, with drawstring at top.

Bag (Spain), 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Mrs. R. Keith Kane from the Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes.
1943-5-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Textile
silk, metal.
1941-80-1-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Seascape with island; landscape with urn and altar; sixteen flowering sprays arranged in two rows; initials "R. vM." and "I. C." with the date "1804" in a wreath.

Sampler (Italy), 1804
silk, metal.
Bequest of Mrs. Henry E. Coe.
1941-69-173

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Dark blue satin ground with small-scale, all-over repeat of scrolling vine with five-petalled flowers, in gold. Fragment cut on bias, edges turned over, as if for collar. Starched or stiffened on back.

Textile (China), 19th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Miss Beatrice Kates.
1940-4-12

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Red velvet ornamented with yellow silk and metal threads (couched) in pattern of leaves and scrolls within straight borders.

Band, 17th century
silk, metal.
1939-37-13

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This object has not been digitized yet.

Hanging (Spain), 17th century
silk, metal.
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
1938-57-1260

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Embroidered figure of saint wearing robe and holding a staff and a book; placed on green satin ground, with embroidered flowers.

Figure, 17th century
silk, metal.
1926-30-3

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Silk covered card case in embroidery in flowers, wheat and medallions with "AH2, 1787" and "ne n'oubliez pas" within borders of metal thread and paillettes. Pink silk lining.

Card Case (France), late 18th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1925-2-67

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A group of embroidery fragments that have been applied to a dark red-violet velvet. Velvet is probably Spanish and dates to the 17th century. Embroideries were removed from a much earlier altar frontal. Fragments show the central tabernacle with the enthroned Virgin and child. Right and left kneeling angels hold musical instruments. Remaining angels have censers.

Fragments (Germany), 15th–16th century
silk, metal.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-801-a/g

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 19 images of this object.

Collection of 572 numbered samples of woven, brocaded or embroidered silks, affixed to heavy board, originally bound in a book.

Book Page (Japan), 17th–19th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Thomas E. Kirby, Esq..
1901-16-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Fragment, 18th century

Fragment, 18th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Samuel P. Avery.
1898-6-83

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Red ribbed silk ground with a large-scale symmetrical palmette surrounded by four serrated leaves connected by a crown. The pattern is formed by one horizontal rib having an extra white silk weft and the alternating rib having a narrow strip of flat silver.

Textile (Italy), 17th century
silk, metal.
Gift of Raimundo de Madrazo.
1898-1-9

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.