Chasuble Back

1451–1500

Medium: Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warp in weft-float faced 1:4 'S' twill interlacings and with two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet
Dimensions: 123.4 × 65.8 cm (48 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.); Repeat: 88.4 × 30.8 cm (34 3/4 × 12 in.)
Genre: Textile
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago