Length of Woven Silk
Unknown
1730–1739
- Medium
- Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground wefts; two selvages present
- Dimensions
- 112.4 × 78.7 cm (44 1/4 × 31 in.); Repeat: 50.4 × 39.6 cm (19 7/8 × 15 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- weaving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
buildingsgridschinoiseriesilk (fiber)wallsgilt-metal-strip-wrapped silksatinurnsflowersdiamond shapespagodaszigzagssquaresfloral motifssilk (textile)vinessatin weavingTextilefoliagegardensweavingsilk18th Centuryribbon
About
Chinoiserie—a European interpretation of East Asian art—held special appeal in the Netherlands. Dutch weavers in Amsterdam developed a singular style of chinoiserie patterns for silk weaving. Their highly detailed compositions of figures and flowers were sometimes mistaken for Japanese textiles, and this may have been the desired effect.
