Fragment (From a Chasuble)

Italy

textileweaving - velvet

Date

1475-1500

Medium

Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in a twill interlacing and supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet

Dimensions

107.6 × 27.8 cm (42 3/8 × 11 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 72.2 cm (28 3/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society

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