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It acted as instructions for the weaver about how to tie up the threads on the loom and then weave in the pattern. It belongs to an archive of similar designs commissioned by a silk manufacturing partnership active in Lyon — the most prestigious centre of the silk industry in Europe from the 1660s onwards — and corresponds in style to the 1760s when patterns were curvaceous. The partnership was called L. Galy, Gallien et cie from 1761 until the beginning of 1771 and it was one of Lyon’s 400 manufacturing concerns mid century. It kept good records, noting on the back of the designs the number of the design and minimal instructions on how it should be woven.\r\n\r\nThis design was for a patterned silk with a plain background, approximately 54 centimetres wide. It would have had this motif repeated across the width at least twice. 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Galy, Gallien et Compe.\r\n13 novembre 1769\r\nNo. 1423 Taff[eta] en soye de 8 en 11, 30 Dix[ain]es, à Répét[ition]","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"L. Galy, Gallien and co.\r\n13 November 1769\r\nTaffeta with coloured silks, 30 dezines in the repeat.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The colours are combined in seven lashes"}],"objectHistory":"Made for the firm of L.Galy, Gallien et cie., this and the other designs of this type were passed down through the partnership. They subsequently came into the hands of a designer by the name of Robert Ruepp of 7 rue Bergère in Paris who exhibited silks at the Great Exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in 1925. They subsequently came into the ownership of Sir Frank Warner (of Warner and co.) and then in 1972 into the collections of the V&A.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"for woven silk, 1763, French; Galy Gallien, feathers flowers lace meanders","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lesley Ellis Miller, 'Mysterious Manufacturers: Situating L. 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