Fragment, Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: plain weave with supplementary warp patterning and discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade), Fragment of silk brocade with an orange ground with a minute tulip pattern forming a diaper in the background. The main, symmetrical floral pattern is brocaded in pale shades of blue, green, red, white, and gold., England, Lyon, France, early 18th-mid- 18th century, woven textiles, Fragment