Samples, Herman A. Elsberg, (American, 1869–1938), Medium: silk warp, cotton weft Technique: cut and voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a satin foundation, Portfolio with woven fabric samples in a design of slender serpentine stems with large stylized roses in black velvet outlined with short floats of secondary silk weft. Sprays of minute flower in the same technique form serpentine lines that connect to flower heads., Lyon, France, 1919, sample books, Samples

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