Man's Cape

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Man's Cape

Italy, Florence, circa 1480
Costumes; outerwear
Silk cut and voided velvet with metallic-thread supplementary weft patterning and metallic-thread supplementary weft loop patterning (bouclé)
Center back length: 31 1/2 in. (80.01 cm) Width: 68 1/2 in. (173.99 cm)
Costume Council Fund (M.66.11)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Velvets East and West:  From the 14th to the 20th Century.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.
  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • Velvets East and West:  From the 14th to the 20th Century.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.
  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • Maeder, Edward.  Renaissance:  Costumes and Textiles 1450-1620.  Los Angeles, CA:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1979.
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