Chasuble

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Chasuble

Italy, circa 1450
Costumes; ceremonial or ritual dress
Chasuble: silk cut pile-on-pile and voided velvet on silk satin ground faced with metallic-thread wefts bound in twill, with metallic-thread weft-looped patterning (bouclé or allucciolato) and silk and metallic thread passementerie; Ophrey: linen plain weave with metallic-, silk-, and wool-thread embroidery and silk plain weave appliqué
Center back length: 42 in. (106.68 cm); Center front length: 34 1/4 in. (86.99 cm); Width: 24 1/2 in. (62.23 cm)
Costume Council Fund (M.83.197.1)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: an Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts..  New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.