Panel of printed camlet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Printed Profusion In comparison to silk, wool could be readily dyed in a range of deep colors, was cheaper, easier to work with, and more hard-wearing. Known as camlets, plain woven, ribbed worsted woolens, like the two seen here, were printed with patterns imitating much pricier damasks. Although they have different provenance, both panels repeat versions of the same popular foliate pattern. Likely woven in Norwich, on the Norfolk coast, the camlets were sent to London for printing.

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