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Pluvial cloak; Toledo, 18th century.Embroidered fabric in gold and silver thread.Signed: Miguel
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Pluvial cloak; MIGUEL GREGORIO MOLERO; Toledo, XVIII century.
Silk brocade with gold and silver threads.
Attached handwritten letter from the historian Doña Concepción García.
Presents loss of the hood or shield.
Signed: Miguel Gregorio Molero.
Measures: 290 x 160 x 124 cm.
Pluvial silk cape with gold and silver thread brocade. The whole piece is made in a single piece of silk, characteristic of the workshop of Don Miguel Gregorio Molero. This piece is woven with the technique of "woven to the form" also called "to disposition", that is to say that the totality of the piece is woven at the same time and not by parts that later were sewn between them. This requires a particular technical skill of the weaver, and looms of exceptional dimensions. Following the words of Doña Concepción García Colorado, doctor in History of Art, we can date this Pluvial Cloak in the 18th century, and consider it authentic from the workshop of Miguel Gregorio Molero, made in one piece with gold, silver and natural silk yarns, in the city of Toledo. Its floral motifs of wide branches expand over the entire surface, characteristic of the decorative conception of "horror vacui" maintained by the Rococo. Curves and between curves are linked and twisted, producing a wooded decoration that floods the surface with large plant motifs. The vegetal motifs offer a geometric spatial arrangement. The embroidery is of great quality and in a good state of preservation.
The workshops of Miguel Gregorio Molero, and those of his father-in-law, Cristóbal Morales, were located in Toledo since 1714. They embroidered exclusively in gold, silver and silk without dye on natural silk. It is recorded in his Memoirs that during the reign of Charles III he requested the Monarch to sell to the whole Kingdom, the granting of tax exemptions for both import and export and to buy silk not only in Talavera, but in other places, as well as to copy foreign motifs. Its particularity lies in the exclusivity of executing the embroidery, as mentioned above, with natural silk, gold and silver threads. In spite of its economic and financial crises, in 1786 in these Workshops 28 Pluvial Cloaks, 18 Dalmatics; 42 Casullas; 30 Pluvial Cloths; 600 Tisues and Stockings and 60 Pasquines de Nobleza or Stoles were embroidered. Under his direction 12 looms operated and 31 people worked. In 1849 the Ornament Factory of the Molero family still survived; unique in Spain and perhaps in Europe, its peculiarity lying in the fact that its manufactures were of a single piece.
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Pluvial cloak; MIGUEL GREGORIO MOLERO; Toledo, XVIII century.
Silk brocade with gold and silver threads.
Attached handwritten letter from the historian Doña Concepción García.
Presents loss of the hood or shield.
Signed: Miguel Gregorio Molero.
Measures: 290 x 160 x 124 cm.
Pluvial silk cape with gold and silver thread brocade. The whole piece is made in a single piece of silk, characteristic of the workshop of Don Miguel Gregorio Molero. This piece is woven with the technique of "woven to the form" also called "to disposition", that is to say that the totality of the piece is woven at the same time and not by parts that later were sewn between them. This requires a particular technical skill of the weaver, and looms of exceptional dimensions. Following the words of Doña Concepción García Colorado, doctor in History of Art, we can date this Pluvial Cloak in the 18th century, and consider it authentic from the workshop of Miguel Gregorio Molero, made in one piece with gold, silver and natural silk yarns, in the city of Toledo. Its floral motifs of wide branches expand over the entire surface, characteristic of the decorative conception of "horror vacui" maintained by the Rococo. Curves and between curves are linked and twisted, producing a wooded decoration that floods the surface with large plant motifs. The vegetal motifs offer a geometric spatial arrangement. The embroidery is of great quality and in a good state of preservation.
The workshops of Miguel Gregorio Molero, and those of his father-in-law, Cristóbal Morales, were located in Toledo since 1714. They embroidered exclusively in gold, silver and silk without dye on natural silk. It is recorded in his Memoirs that during the reign of Charles III he requested the Monarch to sell to the whole Kingdom, the granting of tax exemptions for both import and export and to buy silk not only in Talavera, but in other places, as well as to copy foreign motifs. Its particularity lies in the exclusivity of executing the embroidery, as mentioned above, with natural silk, gold and silver threads. In spite of its economic and financial crises, in 1786 in these Workshops 28 Pluvial Cloaks, 18 Dalmatics; 42 Casullas; 30 Pluvial Cloths; 600 Tisues and Stockings and 60 Pasquines de Nobleza or Stoles were embroidered. Under his direction 12 looms operated and 31 people worked. In 1849 the Ornament Factory of the Molero family still survived; unique in Spain and perhaps in Europe, its peculiarity lying in the fact that its manufactures were of a single piece.
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