Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
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

13th/14th century

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