September and October [fragment] from The Twelve Months of the Year

Medium

Wool, silk, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with some areas of 2 : 2 plain interlacing of silvered-metal wefts Warp: Count: 10 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of four Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm Weft: Count: varies from 19 to 42 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm; silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk: silvered-metal strip wrapped in an S-direction on S-ply of two yarns of Z-ply of two slightly Z-twisted silk elements; pairs of yarns of silvered-metal strip wrapped in an S-direction on S-ply of two yarns of Z-ply of two slightly Z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm

Dimensions

144.8 × 283.6 cm (57 × 111 5/8 in.)

Classification

weaving - tapestry

Department

Textiles

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

58466