Fragment of Velvet

Fragment of Velvet

Mid-15th-early 16th century · Italy

Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut…

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society

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