Textile Fragment
French, from the first quarter of the 18th century

Green and white silk damask costume fabric.

A damask is a patterned textile with one warp and one weft in which the design is formed by a contrast of binding systems. In its classic form, it is reversible and the contrast is produced by the warp and weft faces of the same weave (CIETA).

Transferred from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio,
R.T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948 (KSUM 2006.11.37)

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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