A work made of silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning warps and self-patterned by ground weft floats and areas of plain weve; woven on loom with jacquard attachment.

Fragment

1830/50

Designed by Gertrude Rapp (American, 1808–1889) Woven by the Harmonist Society, 1830-1850 United States, Pennsylvania, Ambridge, Old Economy

Pennsylvania

Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning warps and self-patterned by ground weft floats and areas of plain weve; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Textiles

Women artists