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Textiles · Plants · Catalog HV3FKGX5
Italy, probably Venice · 1460-1470
Cope is a religious/ritual object made with Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet, dated 1460-1470, attributed to Italy, probably Venice and held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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