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Dress or Furnishing Fabric

late 17th century
Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and silver-metal-strip-wrapped silk; twill weave foundation with supplementary twill weave and brocading wefts
16.5 × 64.7 cm (6.5 × 25.5 in)

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