Panel
Late 19th/early 20th century
Spain, probably Barcelona
Spain
This needlework panel presents a playful reinterpretation of velvets woven with cut, uncut, and voided areas. The dark green pattern, an applied design of cut-pile velvet stitched onto the lighter green background, creates the illusion of voided velvet. Similarly, the metallic areas of the pattern, delineated by embroidery, have loops of gilt thread that are attached to the ground fabric, mimicking uncut or looped pile.
Silk and cotton, satin weave; cut; appliquéd with silk, cut solid velvet; embroidered with looped and outlining gilt-metal strip wrapped silk