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Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: satin weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade), Square textile fragment. Green plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade) in rust, green, cream and blue. Design shows basket of flowers with diaper pattern. Below and to the left, a scrolling pattern. Five-harness satin patterned by one and two extra wefts and brocaded supplementary wefts bound by an extra warp in 3/1 twill. Selvage at one edge intact., possibly France, possibly Italy, late 17thmid- 18th century, woven textiles, Fragment