Fragment of Velvet
1201–1300
- Medium
- Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, plain weave variation with weft-float faced 1:2 "Z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts and with supplementary warps forming cut voided velvet
- Dimensions
- 17.1 × 16.6 cm (6 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.); Repeat: 3.9 × 2 cm (1 1/2 × 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (textile)gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silkTextileweaving - velvetplain weaving