Italy

Chasuble

16th century

Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and silvered-metal strip supplementary facing and some supplementary patterning wefts; tapes of silk, gilt-metal strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, inner tape: plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; edge tape: plain weave self-patterned by warp and weft floats; lined with linen, plain weave; glazed

116.8 × 69.4 cm (46 × 27.3 in)