Panel from an Altar Frontal. 1450–1500. Italy. Silk, warp-float faced 3 1 broken twill weave with weft-float faced 1 3 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts forming weft loop pile in areas and with supplementary pile warps forming cut, pile-on-pile, voided velvet; band of silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and extended ground and supplementary patterning weft wrapped cut and uncut fringe; lined with cotton, plain weave

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Photo credit: © WBC ART / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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