Fragment
Cooper Hewitt

Fragment

late 14th century

Medium: silk, metallic (beaten gold on vellum wrapped around linen core) Technique: two integrated plain weave structures (lampas), with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocaded)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Addorsed dolphins in metal threads on a green ground with small scale floral and palmette forms. Horizontals bands of metal threads at the bottom indicate that this fragment came from the bottom of the fabric.

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