Length of Woven Silk
Jean Baptiste Pillement
1735–1745
- Medium
- Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip- wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts
- Dimensions
- 150.5 × 54.7 cm (59 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.); Repeat: 38.5 × 26.8 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Weaving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silkflowersbrocadingfloral motifssilk (textile)botanical/floralsatin weavingTextilefoliageweavingsilk18th Centurygarlands
About
In the 1730s a French designer named Jean Revel invented a technique for creating color shading in woven textile designs. This allowed for an increased appearance of volume in the depicted objects, such as the flowers, fruits, and leaves in this example.
