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A work made of silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in twill interlacing and self-patterned by reversing of faces; lined with silk and gilt-metal strips; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; edged with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and eccentric wefts.

Baptismal Robe

c. 1712/13

Norway

Norway

Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in twill interlacing and self-patterned by reversing of faces; lined with silk and gilt-metal strips; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; edged with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and eccentric wefts

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