Art Institute of Chicago
Fragment of Velvet
ItalyLinkedCulture matchlcp-564a08c09452
- Date
- Mid-15th-early 16th century
- 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; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut velvet with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas with voided velvet
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 1995
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- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
- Provenance
- Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given through the Antiquarian Society to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1895.
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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