Textile Fragment
French, ca. 1705-1710

Tan silk damask costume fabric brocaded with polychrome silk and silver filé thread.
This type of silk is known as "Bizarre Silk." At one point, this textile was 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 2006.11.45)

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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