silk, metal-wrapped silk-core yarns | Media | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pale blue damask brocaded with red silk and silver metallic yarns, in feather-like shapes and floral scrolls in the 'bizarre' style. Both selvages present.

Fragment, 1700–1705
silk, metal-wrapped silk-core yarns.
Museum Purchase from Au Panier Fleuri and Smithsonian Institution Collections....
2000-23-1

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

Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center and is lined in white silk plain weave. The design is arranged so that golden rococo curves meet at the center seam to form a symmetrical v-shaped pattern, with flowering branches and birds, worked in satin stitch in colored silks. While the flowers are symmetrical, the birds are vertically off-set; each panel shows eleven birds, all different, which appear to be taken from a set of ornithological prints by Xaviero Manetti. Metallic effects in several textures are created with couched crimped gold lamella and couched foil-wrapped silk-core threads.

Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70
silk, metal-wrapped silk-core yarns.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-46-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 14 images of this object.