Fragment of Velvet
1450–1500
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut velvet with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas with voided velvet
- Dimensions
- 24.5 × 24.1 cm (9 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
pomegranatestwill weavingvelvetsilk (textile)cut and voidedTextileweaving - velvetweaving