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A work made of silk, satin weave, with gussets of warp-faced plain weave silk; embroidered in silk floss, silver metal strip wrapped on silk core; alos frisé in metal, "purl"; stitches: knot, stem, satin, couching, couched looping around edges.

Purse

c. 1680

England

England

Silk, satin weave, with gussets of warp-faced plain weave silk; embroidered in silk floss, silver metal strip wrapped on silk core; alos frisé in metal, "purl"; stitches: knot, stem, satin, couching, couched looping around edges

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