Double tablets in center enclosing the ten commandments; panels on either side with two saints and verses above. Stitches: cross, flat, hem, satin, and tent.  Framed.

Silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and two-color complementary ground wefts in twill interlacings

Silk and gold gilt strips, integrated compound weave of warp-float faced satin weave and twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning wefts

Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin damask weave with brocading wefts

Silk, gilt metal strips, and gilt metal strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary binding warps tying some supplemenatary brocading wefts in plain interlacing (lampas)

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacing; two panels and one fragment pieced

Silk, gilt-metal strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk (filé and frisé), plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and brocading wefts and weft-float faced interlacing of secondary binding warps and some supplementary brocading wefts

Silk, satin; brocaded in silk and metal thread

1725, England

1725, England

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