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A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacing; fragmentary selvages present.

Two Panels and Two Fragments from an Image Robe

c. 1729/30

France (robe made in Spain or Italy, possibly much later)

France

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying some self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacing; fragmentary selvages present

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