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Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Italy, Venice

Date
1500/50
Medium
Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut pile-on-pile solid velvet
Dimensions
32.4 × 54 cm (12 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.)
Department
Textiles
Credit line
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne