Fragment of Velvet

Curatorial Overview

“Fragment of Velvet is an internationally celebrated Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk supplementary facing wefts; supplementary warps forming pile-on-pile cut velvet with supplementary brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas with voided velvet created by Italy (Mid-15th-early 16th century). From the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.”