Woven portrait
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven: warp-faced plain weave (white) with supplementary weft patterning (black) Label: jacquard-woven silk
- Genre
- Woven textiles
Styles
About
Small piece of silk with two woven pictures: on top, a portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) after a portrait by Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796-1860). Below, a picture of a loom with the Jacquard punch-card mechanism. Woven on a loom equipped with a Jacquard mechanism by Carquillat (died 1884).