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Dress Fragment

Dress Fragment

Unidentified Artist

Italian

Dress silk: meandering ribbons of gold and silver on a ground of cloth of gold (frisé and lamé). The ribbons are interwoven with meandering floral vines of polychrome silk brocading in mulberry and lavender with silver (filé and lamé) flowers.

Silk and metallic yarns

Textile Arts