Art Institute of Chicago

Woven Silk Fragment Supplemented with Drawing

Paul Schulze (German, 1854-1928)

Date

Fragment: 14th century; drawing: 19th century

Medium

Watercolor with opaque and metallic gold watercolor over pen and crimson and black ink with a swatch of compound twill satin, plain weave, on brown wove paper

Culture

Italy

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Design professor and museum professional Paul Schulze created this compelling work by augmenting a fragment of 14th-century Italian silk through drawing. Schulze used his expertise to speculatively “re-create” the textile fragment’s full pattern. Through this informed yet imaginative interpretation, Schulze has enabled viewers to appreciate the composition and motifs of a lost original.

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