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Jean Baptiste Pillement

Flower Embroidery Design for Silk Manufactory of Lyon

c. 1790
black and colored crayon on wove paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Jean Baptiste Pillement not only created designs for silk manufacture, he also is credited with inventing a new technique for printing on fabric.

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