Robe à la Française, 1760–70, French, silk, Standard European silhouettes of the eighteenth century accommodated a world of change and specifically a changing world dominated by new textile techniques from Asia and the Middle East. This French textile emulates ikat (a technique in which yarns are tie-dyed before weaving) in a manner then known as a result of a geographic mistake as chiné
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