Chasuble
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This chasuble– the tabard-like garment worn by a Catholic priest– embodies the nineteenth-century taste for older European historical styles, in this instance the Italian Renaissance. This machine-woven textile combines a main weft of pink with a candy-colored assortment of supplementary wefts in red, green and yellow– the latter in places embellished with a thin wrap of shiny lamella metal thread. Its pattern emulates that of a sixteenth-century silk. This vestment was clearly worn and used: the front is a patchwork of repairs, especially across the chest area.
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