Gaming Bag
1675–1700
- Medium
- Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing
- Dimensions
- 7 × 15 cm (2 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
leathersilk (fiber)gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silktwill weavingneedlework (visual works)costumeTextilecouching (embroidering)laid work18th Centuryembroideringplain weaving