Probably Florence, Italy

Fragment of Velvet

1401–50
Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings and with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
65.8 × 49.9 cm (25.9 × 19.6 in)

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