Textile Panel of ecru cotton with large block print of a lively ornate hanging plant design in mottled shades of gold
- Title
- Textile Panel of ecru cotton with large block print of a lively ornate hanging plant design in mottled shades of gold
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Designer
- Fortuny, Mariano, 1871-1949
- Description
- Textile Panel of ecru cotton with large block print of a lively ornate hanging plant design in mottled shades of gold; left side has a band of gold with small ornate motifs within.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Ornate hanging plant
- Work Type
- Textile Panel
- Location
- Venice >> Venice >> Venice >> Veneto >> Italy
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1998.013.008
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Painterly print Block print
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Looks like an 18th century French design. Fortuny used a Japanese fabric printing technique called, Kalamkari, which involves several steps and can be both hand painted and block printed, and uses only natural dyes.
