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Italy

Fragment, 12th century

Silk, gilt-animal substrate wrapped linen, twill weave with plain and twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning and brocading wefts (detached on reverse)
56.7 x 18.7 cm (22 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Purchased from the Field Museum of Natural History, 1907.900