Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble

Spanish

Not on view

With its ornate and intricate knotwork patterning- still discernable despite the surface losses of the yellow supplementary weft- this textile is an evocative survival of Spanish, sixteenth-century weaving. When these strips were first part of The Met's collection, they were attached to an additional fragment of the same textile (17.29.16b) and assembled to imitate the front of a liturgical garment (as recorded in black-and-white photography). This was probably an early twentieth-century construction created by dealers to make the fragments more saleable.

Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble, Silk, linen and metal thread, Spanish

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Image with two vertical strip fragments comprising 17.29.16a laid out flanking central fragmentary strip (now 17.29.16b)

Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble, Silk, linen and metal thread, Spanish
Two strips of red, yellow and white lampas silk; possibly originally part of a chasuble, Silk, linen and metal thread, Spanish

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