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A work made of silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 's' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet.

Chasuble Back

1450/1500

Italy

Italy

Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

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