Bedcover
1710–1750
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and coils of silver-metal strips; laid work, couching, and padded couching with silk-wrapped bast fiber and paper forms; wool fiber batting; backed with linen, plain weave; three widths joined
- Dimensions
- 158.7 × 158.8 cm (62 1/2 × 62 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
wool (textile)linen (material)silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silksilk (textile)quiltingneedlework (visual works)satin weavingTextilepaper (fiber product)couching (embroidering)embroideringplain weaving