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Orphrey Fragment

1450/1500
Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts
22.5 × 27.4 cm (8.9 × 10.8 in)

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