Chasuble
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The design of this silk textile belongs to a stylistic group historically called "bizarre", with distinctive bold and fantastical foliage, rendered in a rich and sparkling palette- here, coral pink, green, and cream, articulated with silver thread. This silken textile was treasured enough to have been carefully repurposed one hundred or so years after it was originally woven: the silk has been cut and assembled sometime in the nineteenth century to create the current garment, a tabard-like chasuble for a priest to wear when officiating during Roman Catholic church services.
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