Textile Fabrics / A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum

by Daniel Rock

1362.

Silk Damask; ground, bright crimson; design, a conventional floriation in various-coloured silks. North Italian, 16th century. 9¼ inches by 6¾ inches.

1362.

SILK DAMASK

Crimson ground with large branching pattern in coloured silk. Italian, 16th century.

Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.

So thick is this somewhat showy stuff, that it must have been meant for furniture purposes.