Doris Leslie Blau is discounting 100 custom and antique carpets through May 30 (the contemporary Quantum Circles 8-by-10-foot hand-knotted silk ground rug with a wool raised interlocking design, above, originally $13,600, is $6,800; a 19th-century 11-by-17-foot Persian Heriz rug, originally $48,500, is $18,500); Doris Leslie Blau, 306 East 61st Street, (212) 586-5511 or dorisleslieblau.com.
Areas of the embroidery were worked on white or ivory silk grounds in a variety of stitches and prominent features were padded with horsehair or lambswool, or worked around wooden shapes or wire frames.
These were painted in India ink and colour on paper, card, and silk, the ground often sprinkled with gold dust or laid with gold or silver leaf.
A looser example -- probably Wheeler's -- of the firm's work is a textile panel with motifs of Chinese-style clouds and chrysanthemums scattered across a silk canvas ground.
A heavy hitter in this last category is L'Merchie Frazier's "Jubilation: Is Freedom Visible?" In this complex creation, Ms. Frazier, director of education at the Museum of Afro-American Art Hintory in Boston, explores the theme of the underground railroad, and the multipatterned silk and cotton ground of the quilt is layered over with replicas of written texts and photo-transferred pictures.
c The silk, base layer, ground layer and the paint layer Fig. 4 Polarized light microscopy of the cross section from P3 showing the metallic paint layer at different levels of magnification, a ×100 µm and b ×100 µm Fig. 5 Light microscopy images of a sample from P4 showing the red translucent glaze, a ×50 and b ×100.
At its height, hundreds of people, mostly women, worked in the mill, steaming, dying, stretching, and throwing silk, while metal gears ground and the threads sang through the air.
According to fast-spreading reports of Abbie's honesty, she was walking into a Sam's Club in Scarborough, Maine, when she spotted a green silk purse on the ground.
Silk threads (and silk ribbons).
Its 152 rooms are decorated with period furniture and brocade silk drapes, and its grounds include a zen spa and an 18-hole golf course.
He also planted mulberry trees for producing silk on the estate grounds.
