About This Artwork

France or England

Cope and Hood, Late 18th/early 19th century

Cope: Silk, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, in satin, split and stem stitches; couching, linen, paper and board padded couching, laidwork, and French knots;
Orphrey: outlined by two braids: one of silk and silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps and one of silk, cotton and silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; cope edged with silk, silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and extended ground weft uncut fringe;
Morse binding: cotton, plain weave; glazed;
Orphrey underlined with linen, plain weave;
Cope lined with linen, plain weave; glazed
Hood: Silk, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, in satin and split stitches; couching, linen, paper and board padded couching, laidwork, and French knots; braid of silk and silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps; edged with silk, silvered-metal-strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and extended ground weft uncut fringe; underlined with silk, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; lined with linen, plain weave
a: 143.5 x 296.9 cm (56 1/2 x 116 7/8 in.)
b: 50.2 x 51.9 cm (19 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1970.1078a-b