Mise-en-carte and Sample for a Woven Textile with Intersecting Undulating Ribbons and Stylized Flowers
Anonymous, French, 18th century French
Not on view
Mise-en-carte (weaving pattern) for a woven textile (a) from the late-18th century, with design motifs 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 contains a pattern with intersecting diagonal strips of undulating ribbons that form lozenge shapes upon which rest stylized flowers on stems. The ribbons and flowers are colored with red over the mise-en-carte. The background is recorded with black horizontal stripes, which show the weaving pattern for the textile.
Placed below the mise-en-carte is a fabric sample (b) with a fragment of what would have been the finished textile: the flowers and ribbons are executed with yellow threads, and the background is executed with red.
Detailed instructions for the manufacture of the woven textile appear in the verso of the sheet of paper that holds both the mise-en-carte and the fabric sample.
