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Length of Woven Silk
1770-75
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced 9:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground wefts
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 92.8 × 52 cm (36 1/2 × 20 1/2 in.); Repeat: 18.4 × 17.2 cm (7 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Lyon
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
By the 1770s floral patterns had become smaller and were superimposed on striped backgrounds. More saturated colors also came into fashion.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0