Textile, Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: compound weave with supplementary weft patterning (brocade), Textile fragment with faded blue ground figured with pattern of ogee arches and clusters of three dots. Brocaded with design of large vertical zigzags outlined by minute ornaments in silver yarns and containing a large variety of flower forms in polychrome silks. The zigzags are interrupted by undulating branches in silver thread., France, late 17th century, woven textiles, Textile