Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)
France, probably Lyon
Length of Woven Silk
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Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)
France, probably Lyon1735-45
Length of Woven Silk
Design in the Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808) France, probably Lyon →18th Centuryweavingtextile
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
Dimensions
150.5 × 54.7 cm (59 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.); Repeat: 38.5 × 26.8 cm (15 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
John C. and Margaret Hambleton Murphy Memorial Fund
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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