Islamic

Fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valero

13th century
Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, weft-faced four color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and areas of detached plain interlacing of inner warps with complementary ground wefts (blue)
13.5 × 7.8 cm (5.3 × 3.1 in)

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