Fragment

Italy

Date

1450/1500

Medium

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 and supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming pile-on-pile cut voided velvet

Dimensions

24.5 × 24.1 cm (9 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society