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Textile
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A length of woven velvet with a large-scale, vertically symmetrical design in the style of the seventeenth century. Ogees with serrated edges containing small flowering tree motifs are surrounded by a large-scale ogival framing devide made up of pearl borders; with a pearl crescent at the point of intersection. In gold metallic twill on a ground of green silk velvet pile in various shades, giving a striae effect.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineTextile. 19th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Harvey Smith. CC0.
