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, x cm (40 x 20 5/8 in.), Reimagined by G

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Size: 3462px × 6000px
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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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