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Length of Woven Silk

France, LyonLinkedCulture matchlcp-10912ef7592b

Date: 1770-75
Medium: Silk, warp-float faced 9:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground wefts
Culture: Lyon
Department: Textiles
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 102152

By the 1770s floral patterns had become smaller and were superimposed on striped backgrounds. More saturated colors also came into fashion.

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Credit line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment
Provenance: Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, by Apr. 1983 [invoice object no. 16956, Apr. 10, 1984, and incoming receipt RX14027, Apr. 12, 1983, copies in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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Object type: AAT300014063

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