Fragments

19th century · Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: 8-harness satin patterned by a 3/1 twill supplementary fabric structure and brocaded supplementary wefts bound with the supplementary fabric structure, one of the wefts of the supplementary fabric is bound by the warps of the foundation fabric for a change in surface effect, the foundation fabric is entirely covered by the wefts of the supplementary fabric–it acts as a support for the gold

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