Cleveland Museum of Art
Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares
- Date
- 1200s
- Medium
- Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
- Culture
- Spain, probably Almeria
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Alternating rows of two different forms of interlacing stars set within square frames convey a jewel-like brilliance with gold and contrasting colors. This fragment was reused in an ecclesiastical vestment that made its way to the cathedral at Lleida in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. A document dated 1275 records that the Bishop of Lleida and his companions brought “[A] complete set of vestments, of Muslim manufacture, which ornaments they dedicated to San Valero.”
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