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Ribbons (France)

This is a Ribbons. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is silk, metal strips wrapped around cotton core and its technique is satin weave with weft patterning. It is a part of the Textiles department.

Stylized florals dominated Jazz Age textile patterns. In more sophisticated designs, stylized flowers and foliage served as the premise for decorative compositions of formal elements. In these ribbons, for example, the roses are essentially circles made up of curvilinear forms to be woven in gold, silver, and bronze metallic threads. Elsberg created five different background colors to display his glittering roses.

This object was bequest of Unknown. It is credited Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.

  • Textile (France)
  • silk, metallic thread.
  • Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.
  • 1938-82-40-a/d
  • Textile (France)
  • silk.
  • Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.
  • 1938-82-8
  • Ribbon Samples (France)
  • H x W (a): 29.4 × 29.6 cm (11 9/16 × 11 5/8 in.) H x W (b): 28.3 × 29.9 cm....
  • Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.
  • 1938-82-124-a/g

Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Ribbon Samples (France)
  • silk, metallic thread.
  • Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg.
  • 1938-82-116-a/h
  • Sidewall (France)
  • block-printed on paper.
  • Gift of Jones and Erwin, Inc..
  • 1945-13-2-a,b
  • Sidewall (USA)
  • machine-printed.
  • Gift of Interior Design and Decoration.
  • 1951-27-4

Its dimensions are

H x W (a): 121.9 × 30.8 cm (48 × 12 1/8 in.) H x W (b): 56.8 × 32.4 cm (22 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.) H x W (c): 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.) H x W (d): 38.7 × 30.5 cm (15 1/4 in. × 12 in.) H x W (e): 38.4 × 30.8 cm (15 1/8 × 12 1/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Ribbons (France); silk, metal strips wrapped around cotton core; H x W (a): 121.9 × 30.8 cm (48 × 12 1/8 in.) H x W (b): 56.8 × 32.4 cm (22 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.) H x W (c): 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.) H x W (d): 38.7 × 30.5 cm (15 1/4 in. × 12 in.) H x W (e): 38.4 × 30.8 cm (15 1/8 × 12 1/8 in.); Anonymous bequest in memory of Albert and Rebecca Elsberg; 1938-82-184-a/e

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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