Portion of a Waistcoat (Front)
1775–1800
- Medium
- Silk and gilt-metal strips, warp-float faced twill weave with supplementary facing wefts bound by secondary binding warps and three-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
- Dimensions
- 48.2 × 47.8 cm (19 × 18 7/8 in.); Repeat: 13.5 × 8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silkfashiontwill weavingvelvetsilk (textile)cut and voidedTextileweaving - velvet