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Textile

17th century · Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: compound twill, stamped, with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Gold metallic ground with a stamped design of diagonal lines crossing in groups of three, forming diamond-shaped lozenges. Within each, brocaded roses alternating with bunches of violets in straight repeat. In purple, blue, green, pink, silver and gold.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description

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Textiles

Credit lineTextile. 17th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of George A. Hearn. CC0.

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