Length of wool damask

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wool was the core of the British economy for centuries. Nationwide, weavers created globally admired woolen worsted cloth across a range of qualities and types, versatile and vogueish in design. Most expensive were complex damasks like this, reversible and subtly patterned by contrasting shining warp face and matte weft face. Particularly suited to furniture and wall coverings, this example and another in The Met's collection (x.397.2) repeat the same pattern produced in different colorways- this mustard yellow, and the other warm gold.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art