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  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
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A work made of silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; orphrey: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; edged with gilt-metal strip and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen, plain weaves self-patterned by main warp floats.

Chasuble

1475-1500

Italy

Italy

Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; Orphrey: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; edged with gilt-metal strip and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen, plain weaves self-patterned by main warp floats

Textiles