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Pipes (hangings)

Scope note

Use for the short vertical arrangement of draped fabric, with a tapered lower hem falling in a broken diagonal, often used as the center ornament of a festoon curtain.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000204892

Equivalent Terms used

pipe (hanging)

Created

13yrs ago

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