Fragment of a Vestment

Bibliography

Accession number	BZ.1952.10
Attribution and Date	Bursa? Constantinople?, 16th c.
Measurements	H. 68.7 × W. 42.0 cm (27 1/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Technique and Material	Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts
Acquisition history	Acquired from Zoumpoulakis, Athens, 1952; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC.

Handbook of the Byzantine Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 376.

W. T. Woodfin, “Celestial Hierarchies and Earthly Hierarchies in the Art of the Byzantine Church,” The Byzantine World (London, 2010), 317, fig. 23.6.

W. T. Woodfin, The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford, 2012).

W. T. Woodfin, “Repetition and Replication: Sacred and Secular Patterned Textiles,” in Experiencing Byzantium: Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed. C. Nesbitt and M. Jackson (Farnham, Surrey, 2013), 53, fig. 3.6.

Accession number	BZ.1952.10
Attribution and Date	Bursa? Constantinople?, 16th c.
Measurements	H. 68.7 × W. 42.0 cm (27 1/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Technique and Material	Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with weft-float faced twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts
Acquisition history	Acquired from Zoumpoulakis, Athens, 1952; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC.