Length of Woven Silk

Art Institute of Chicago

Length of Woven Silk

France, Lyon

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

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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