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Length of Woven Silk
1720s
- Medium
- Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 93.3 × 41.2 cm (36 3/4 × 16 1/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 42 cm (16 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Belle M. Borland 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
Many of the woven silk textiles of the 1720s contain lace-like details such as those on this example, in which delicate patterns fill the petals and leaves, which surround stylized flowers. The colors employed reflect a knowledge of Persian textiles, subtle to modern eyes but apparent to 18th-century viewers.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
