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Nightcap
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Nightcap

18th century · Medium: silk, metallic yarn (metal foil wound around silk core) and flat foil strips Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocaded) Label: silk and metallic brocade

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

About this work

Tall man's nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineNightcap. 18th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline E. Greenleaf. CC0.

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