Portion of Chasuble Back
1575–1625
- Medium
- Chasuble: silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; orphrey cross: silk, plain weave with gilt-metal-strip supplementary facing wefts; embroidered in silk, gilt-metal-strips, gilt-metal-strips wrapped with gilt-metal-wire and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, couching and padded couching over bast fiber padding; edged with silk, plain weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts with extended weft uncut fringe; lined with silk, plain weave
- Dimensions
- 80.7 × 68 cm (31 3/4 × 26 3/4 in.); Chasuble silk repeat: 11.5 × 13.5 cm (4 5/8 × 5 5/8 in.); Orphrey cross: 79.3 × 50.7 cm (31 1/4 × 20 in.); Edge fringe: H.: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
fringedgilt-metal-strip-wrapped silkliturgicalcrossessilk (textile)botanical/floralchevronsTextilecouching (embroidering)weavingembroideringplain weaving