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Utrecht Velvet, Design c. 1871
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Artist | William Morris |
| Spatial Coverage | England |
| Temporal Coverage | 1871 |
| Description | This stamped furnishing fabric imitates, in design and technique, 18th-century velvets made in the Netherlands and known colloquially as “Utrecht velvet.” The city of Utrecht was a center of stamped velvet production. Manufacturers there impressed patterns into cut solid velvet with a heated copper roller. The compressed pile created the illusion of velvet woven with varying piles, which would have been more time consuming to produce. This reproduction catered to consumer desire for high-end, historically inspired furnishings. [A work made of cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; stamped.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Foliage Cotton (textile) Plain Weaving Arts and Crafts Movement Textile Weaving Velvet Silk (textile) Stamping (forming) British 19th Century British Arts and Crafts Movement Natural Dye Artworks Textiles |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
