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Fragment

1450/1500
Silk and cotton, velvet; cut pile-on-pile, voided; additional paired patterning wefts in gold foil (cut strips wound around silk core) tied in twill weave; against plain weave foundation
26 × 29.1 cm (10.2 × 11.5 in)

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