Baptismal Robe
1712–1713
- Medium
- Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in twill interlacing and self-patterned by reversing of faces; lined with silk and gilt-metal strips; plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; edged with silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and eccentric wefts
- Dimensions
- 163.4 × 67.4 cm (64 1/4 × 26 1/2 in.); Repeat: 67.9 × 23.7 cm (26 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)costumeTextileweaving