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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)

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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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.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
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Credit lineFragment. late 14th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. CC0.
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