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118275
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Fragment of a Reliquary Bag
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118275
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Fragment of a Reliquary Bag
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1250–99
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en
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Q80013140
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Textile
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Overall: 12.1 x 18.4 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
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France
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1939.37
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Silk and metal thread: tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge
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Fragment of a Reliquary Bag, 1250–99. France. Silk and metal thread: tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge; overall: 12.1 x 18.4 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.37
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Textiles
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Witte, Fritz. <em>Die liturgischen Gewänder und kirchlichen Stickereien des Schnütgenmuseums</em> Köln. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft. 1926.
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tafel 45, p. 17, no. 5
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Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe (Berlin, Germany). <em>Die Sammlung Dr. Leopold Seligmann</em>, <em>Koln</em>. 1930.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 209, pl. LXXVI
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Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.
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www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
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Dohme Breeskin, Adelyn and Charles Crehore Cunningham. <em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952</em>. Hartford, CT: Wardsworth Atheneum, 1951.
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p. 33
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Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
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Reproduced: fig. 183
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Martin Nagy, Rebecca. <em>Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 27, 58, cat. no. 8, fig. 16
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Spies, Nancy. <em>Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands</em>. Jarrettsville, MD: Arelate Studio, 2000.
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p. 182, 194, 277
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Pritchard, Frances. <em>Crafting Textiles: Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century</em>. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021.
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p. 1-69
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:07:25.953000
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Silk and metal thread: tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge
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