LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2025
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Textile Lengthearly 18th century

Not on view
Woven textile fragment with vertical aquamarine and cream stripes, decorated with a repeating pattern of golden-tan spread-winged birds, stepped triangles, and lotus bud motifs

Unknown, Textile Length, early 18th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Textile Length
Place Made
France
Date Made
early 18th century
Medium
Silk plain weave (faille) with metallic thread supplementary discontinuous weft patterning
Dimensions
39 × 19 1/2 in. (99.06 × 49.53 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.81.69.3
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.

Related Unframed

Related Unframed

At Home with Art—Clarissa Esguerra
At Home with Art—Clarissa Esguerra
  • March 17, 2021
  • Clarissa Esguerra
It’s Too Tangled! The Conservation of Ikat Threads in "Power of Pattern"
It’s Too Tangled! The Conservation of Ikat Threads in "Power of Pattern"
  • May 13, 2020
  • Catherine McLean
This Weekend at LACMA
This Weekend at LACMA
  • January 23, 2015
  • Roberto Ayala
This Weekend at LACMA
This Weekend at LACMA
  • October 10, 2014
  • Roberto Ayala
Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee (DA2): 2014 Acquisitions
Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee (DA2): 2014 Acquisitions
  • July 16, 2014
  • Abbey Chamberlain Brach
Bernard Kester’s “Ogee” Graces Ray’s
Bernard Kester’s “Ogee” Graces Ray’s
  • February 24, 2011
Collection Favorites: Bernard Kester Textiles
Collection Favorites: Bernard Kester Textiles
  • June 17, 2010