Art Institute of Chicago

Length of Woven Silk

Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)

Date

1735-45

Medium

Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip- wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts

Culture

France

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

In the 1730s a French designer named Jean Revel invented a technique for creating color shading in woven textile designs. This allowed for an increased appearance of volume in the depicted objects, such as the flowers, fruits, and leaves in this example.

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