, 13th century

  • German

Samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): linen, silk, and metallic thread

  • Overall: 6 × 18 1/4 inches (15.2 × 46.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

46.313

Sangiorgi Collection (Rome, Italy)

(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA)

1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1991, no. 2, p. 16. Weibel, A. C. Two thousand years of Textiles. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952, no. 189.

German, textile, 13th century, samit (twill with inner warp and complementary weft): linen, silk, and metallic thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 46.313.