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A work made of silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave.

Panel (formerly a Curtain from a Sedan Chair)

c. 1720

France

France

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in 3:1 twill interlacing and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

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