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A work made of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut velvet with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas with voided velvet.

Fragment

1450/1500

Italy

Italy

Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut velvet with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas with voided velvet

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