Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
Textile fragment, light brown background with darker patterning of wide vine-line forms with leaves and flourishes, outlined in red thread.

Fragment

1450/1500

Italy

Italy

Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

Textiles