Altar Cloth

c. 1350 Overall: 154.3 x 374.5 cm (60 3/4 x 147 7/16 in.) Source image
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This large, embroidered altar cloth is one of the rarest, most important medieval church furnishings in existence. It was stitched by nuns in the Premonstratensian Convent in Altenberg on the Lahn River, north of Frankfurt, Germany, and was used to cover the church’s high alta...

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