Textile, Medium: silk, metallic Technique: compound weave of damassé foundation (8 harness satin plus plain weave) with floats of alternate foundation wefts and discontinuous supplementary wefts bound 3/1 twill \ by a supplementary warp, Fantastic leafy forms and entwining plants form a motif in metallic edge with light green plants one above the other and side by side for a continuous pattern. The background is dark red and damassé, the pattern of which forms a narrow shadow-edge to the motifs., ca. 1705, woven textiles, Textile

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