Textile
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Italy. 1450-1500. Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.
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TextileObject type
An object classified as a textile.
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Textile
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SilkMaterial
Silk recorded in the object's medium.
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; silk (textile); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; velvet” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; silk (textile); gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; velvet
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
WeavingTechnique
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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; plain weaving; cut and voided” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet; plain weaving; cut and voided
Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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