Length of Brocaded Fabric

Culture: English
Date: c.1745
Material: Silk
made in: London, Greater London, England, Europe
Classification: Textiles
Collection: Decorative Arts and Design
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 19 3/4 × 40 1/4 in. (50.2 × 102.2 cm)
Credit Line: Richard Brumbaugh Trust in memory of Richard Irving Brumbaugh and Grace Lischer Brumbaugh
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 108:2016

NOTES

Flowers three ways—loosely bundled, wound into garlands, and repeated in commas of pattern—make this a dizzyingly complex textile. Made in Spitalfields, the silk-weaving capital of England, this luxurious dress fabric, festooned with tulips, roses, and bellflowers, represents the pinnacle of 18th-century botanical naturalism. The brocading, or woven and raised embellishment, mirrored the depth and variation achieved in embroidery of the same moment.

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