Textile

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Designer
Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938)
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Black velvet ground with an allover design of deeply looping lines in metallic gold. Four different colors of metallics – blue, orange, violet and green – in the ground.
Credit Line
Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg
1919
Accession Number
1938-82-197
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
woven textiles
Textile
Medium
Medium: silk and metallic threads Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile in a plain compound foundation (velvet)
Dimensions
Warp x Weft: 57 x 76 cm (22 7/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
made in
Lyon, France
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Textiles Department
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1938-82-197
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47235fdea-2a70-409c-81ca-5151f7181d15
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