Textile Fragment
French, ca. 1725-1735

White silk taffeta costume fabric brocaded with pink silk and gold filé and frisé thread. This textile has been pieced together in an attempt to recreate the original pattern.

Transferred from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio,
R.T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948 (KSUM 2006.11.42)

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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