Mise-en-carte for Velours Miniature with Young Man Piping to His Dancing Dog

Mise-en-carte (weaving pattern) for "velours miniature", a type of velvet that was often decorated with sewing points and repetitive small ornaments with contrasting colors, which was particularly fashionable towards the end of the 18th century. The design in the mise-en-carte provides a design motif typical of the time of Louis XVI, when textiles were decorated with colorful garlands of flowers and leaves, as well as other naturalistic motifs and garden trophies.

This design consists of a young man that rests on what seems to be a green pasture, piping to his dancing dog. The young man and the dog are both colored with pink and purple, and the hair and pipe of the young man are colored with green. They are drawn over a blue background that forms an abstracted cloud shape, below which can be seen a pattern of diagonal lights colored with yellow. The design is rendered over a printed squared paper that would provide the guidelines in the weaving process.