Textile Fragment
French, ca. 1750s

White silk taffeta costume fabric brocaded with polychrome, gilt filé and frisé,
and silver frisé thread.

Brocading describes a general process in which a supplementary weft is introduced into a ground weave. In this pattern, the brocading weft is limited to the width of the area where it is required and does not travel from selvage to selvage (CIETA).

Transferred from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio,
R.T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948 (KSUM 2006.11.40)

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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