Research in Progress Fragment of a woven textile patterned by a vertically symmetrical pattern of two different offset and dovetailed rows of flowering plants. This fragment isolates on plants. Multi colors on a silver background.
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Date published
- 18th century
- Dates
- 18th century
- Format
- Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with complementary wefts and inner warps; binding on the front is 1/3 twill; four dark green, salmon, and yellow wefts; the other colors are bound on the front in 1/3 twill and free floating on the back; the silver is continuous and the silks discontinuous
- Pages
- Warp x Weft: 13.5 x 9 cm (5 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 1962-58-29
- Rights
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/b88adc67f0c5c62a09672b032d831fee
