Costume and Accessories
Gaming Bag
France. 1675/1700. Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Costume and AccessoriesObject type
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Costume and Accessories
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SilkMaterial
Silk recorded in the object's medium.
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; silk (fiber); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; leather” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; silk (fiber); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; leather
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LeatherMaterial
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; silk (fiber); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; leather” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; silk (fiber); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; leather
Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
EmbroideryTechnique
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; twill weaving; couching (embroidering); embroidering; laid work; plain weaving” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; twill weaving; couching (embroidering); embroidering; laid work; plain weaving
Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
WeavingTechnique
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; twill weaving; couching (embroidering); embroidering; laid work; plain weaving” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, broken warp-chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid pile; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in laid work, couching, and padded couching; over leather; edged with silk, plain weave tape; drawstring of silk, oblique interlacing; twill weaving; couching (embroidering); embroidering; laid work; plain weaving
Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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