Possibly England or France

Panel

1890s
Cotton, silk, wild silk and gilt-metal-strip wrapped cotton, double faced weave of two sets of complimentary warp and weft forming detached layers of interlacing in areas of plain weave over weft-float faced 1:2 's' twill weave and weft-float faced 1:4 satin weave over plain weave and single layer areas of plain weave with paired warps and wefts and with supplementary patterning wefts bound in a weft-float faced 1:3 's' twill interlacings and self-patterned by ground weft floats; edged with cotton, silk and gilt-metal-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts
186.3 × 122.2 cm (73.3 × 48.1 in)

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