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Textile fragment
Spanish
14th–15th century
Object Place: Spain
Medium/Technique
Silk and gold-metallic thread
Dimensions
Height x width: 68 x 21 cm (26 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number30.104
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionTextile fragment with gold ground, gold weft (gilded skin wound on yellow silk, worn and tarnished) covering red silk warp; design of arabesques forming rows of arches woven with green, blue, and white silk weft and red warp (satin). The white silk has largely disappeared.