Chalice Cover
1701–1800
- Medium
- Silk, warp-faced plain weave; same lining; edged with bobbin lace of metal thread; embroidered in silk floss, gold metal strip wrapped on silk core—used singly and as 2-ply twist, metal strip; stitches: long and short, couching, stem, knot, herring-bone (threaded with metal strip) couching in brick and other patterns
- Dimensions
- 69.2 × 72.5 cm (27 1/4 × 28 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)needlework (visual works)Textile