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Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

France · c. 1720 · Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

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silk (textile)satin weaving lace pattern textile weaving plain weaving

Credit linePanel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair). c. 1720. France. The Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, Mrs. E. T. Watkins, Mrs. Orrin W. Potter, Mrs. M. M. Ludington, Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, Martin A. Ryerson and Charles L. Hutchinson through the Antiquarian Society. CC0.

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