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A work made of silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading weft tied in twill interlacing polychrome.

Fragment

17th century

France or Italy

Italy

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading weft tied in twill interlacing polychrome

Textiles