Length of Woven Silk
1770–1775
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced 9:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground wefts
- 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.)
- Genre
- Weaving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)stripeslaceflowersfloral motifsdotsbotanical/floralsatin weavingTextilefoliageweavingsilk18th Centuryribbon
About
By the 1770s floral patterns had become smaller and were superimposed on striped backgrounds. More saturated colors also came into fashion.