Chasuble
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Extremely able needle workers created the light and delicate patterns of golden curlicues, arabesques and basketwork, intertwined with colorful florals, pink, blue and soft purple. The trompe l'œil design gracefully plays with the illusion of the thick, rigid vertical passementerie braiding- in some areas the foliage seeming to pass behind it, in others to grow in front. This chasuble was the tabard-like garment worn by a roman Catholic priest during church services as a part of a larger set of matching vestments and altar cloths.
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