The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Fragment, probably from a Chasuble

Fragment, probably from a Chasuble

1400s
Overall: 66 x 29.9 cm (26 x 11 3/4 in.); Mounted: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Luxurious velvet fabrics were woven in several different grades based on the quality and quantity of the raw materials. Those with extensive gold thread and plush silk pile were the most luxurious. This green velvet is of a lower grade. The popular 15th-century pattern of five-lobed palmettes displaying pomegranates or blossoms is arranged in staggered rows. Velvet pile was omitted in areas to create the pattern, known as "voided" velvet. Since projecting pile required quantities of silk thread, voided velvet was less expensive to manufacture than solid-pile velvet or brocaded velvet.
  • Bacri Frères
  • Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019).
    Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004).
    Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 1994).
    Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 1984).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1918.232