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Armenia

Fragment, 16th century

Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts
11.7 x 32.8 cm (4 5/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society, 1916.378