Carpet
1701–1800
- Medium
- Wool and cotton, plain weave; with brocaded areas of supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" and embroidered filling of contiguous rows of stem stitches, countered in direction in alternate pairs of rows; embroidered outline stitches around pile areas
- Dimensions
- 173.3 × 144.5 cm (68 1/4 × 56 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
needlework - carpetwool (textile)needlework (visual works)Textile