Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Large-scale pomegranate design within an ogival framework, in red velvet with two pile heights, gold brocading, and some gold in raised loops. May have been part of a chasuble.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 15th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: supplementary warp forming raised pile (velvet) in a 4&1 satin foundation, with discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocading)
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 116.8 x 22.9 cm (46 x 9 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Textile
