A work made of silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, ground weft floats and secondary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in a plain interlacing; two loom widths joined.

Panel

1732/33

Design in the style of Courtois (French, active c. 1732–1733) France

France

Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, ground weft floats and secondary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in a plain interlacing; two loom widths joined

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