Village Fete (Saint George's Fair) from a Teniers series
Workshop of Gaspard (Jasper) van der Borcht
- Date
- c. 1710
- Medium
- Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 8 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 24 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; three yarns of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm; silk: Z-ply of two yarns of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; three yarns of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–0.9 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of S-ply of two Z-spun wool elements and S-ply of two Z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.5–0.7 mm
- Materials
- wool (textile)
- Dimensions
- 449.6 × 320.7 cm (177 × 126 1/4 in.)
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- Gift of Marshall Field and Company
Exhibition history
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Cite this work
Workshop of Gaspard (Jasper) van der Borcht, Village Fete (Saint George's Fair) from a Teniers series, c. 1710, Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 8 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 24 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; three yarns of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm; silk: Z-ply of two yarns of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; three yarns of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–0.9 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of S-ply of two Z-spun wool elements and S-ply of two Z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.5–0.7 mm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
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Gift of Marshall Field and Company
Metadata sourced from Art Institute of Chicago open data collection
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