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A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, plain weave variation with weft-float faced 1:2 "z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and with supplementary warps forming cut voided velvet.

Fragment of Velvet

13th-14th century

Possibly Tabriz, Iran

Persia

Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, plain weave variation with weft-float faced 1:2 "Z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and with supplementary warps forming cut voided velvet

Textiles