Four Lengths of Woven Silk
1760s
- Medium
- Silk, plain weave foundation with complementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts of silk and flat silver metal strips
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 205.8 × 96.5 cm (81 × 38 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- 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
Silk fabrics patterned on a loom formed the basis of much of men’s and women’s formal dress in the 18th century. Colors and patterns changed regularly; this design of small bouquets linked by ribbons was most popular in the mid-1760s. The color pink in all its shades was a perennial favorite of European women throughout the 18th century.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
