Fragment (Needlework)
1750–1800
- Medium
- Silk and silver gilt strip, plain weave with supplementary facing wefts; embroidered with silk floss and gold- and silver-gilt strips wound around silk fiber cores in herringbone, satin, and stem stitches; laid work of gold gilt coils; couching and padded couching
- Dimensions
- 98.6 × 28.2 cm (38 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silkflowerssilk (textile)needlework (visual works)Textilefoliagecouching (embroidering)