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A work made of silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with secondary binding warps, patterning and brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; with cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, woven tapes ties: cotton, twill weave interlinings and linings: cotton and linen, plain weaves, some glazed.

Chasuble

mid–18th century

Possibly based on a design by Jean Revel French, 1684–1751

France

Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with secondary binding warps, patterning and brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; with cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, woven tapes Ties: cotton, twill weave Interlinings and linings: cotton and linen, plain weaves, some glazed

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