Textile Fragment
French, ca. 1765-1775

Lavender silk taffeta costume fabric brocaded with polychrome thread.

Transferred from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio,
R.T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948 (KSUM 2006.11.15)

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Included in the Exhibition

In Bloom: Patterned Silk Design Innovations in Eighteenth Century France
Alumni Gallery, March 6, 2008, to February 8, 2009
Elizabeth St-George, Guest Curator
   
   


It has received support through an
Ohio Arts Council Sustainability Grant.
    


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