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Pair of Men's Gloves

England · 1600/50 · Gloves: leather; Gauntlets: silk, satin weave; embroidered with linen, gilt-metal-coiled wire and strips, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in couching and padded couching; ribbons of silk, plain weave; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin straight lace; metal spangles

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Subjects

satin weaving leather textile needlework (visual works)embroidering costume costume accessory silk (textile)Costume and Accessories

Credit linePair of Men's Gloves. 1600/50. England. The Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior bequest of Chester D. Tripp. CC0.

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