Length of Woven Silk
1735-45
Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808) France, probably Lyon
France
In the 1730s a French designer named Jean Revel invented a technique for creating color shading in woven textile designs. This allowed for an increased appearance of volume in the depicted objects, such as the flowers, fruits, and leaves in this example.
Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip- wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts