Altar door curtain

March 5 1613

Oriental fabric, with stitched silken threads, doubled with a new white synthetic material, applied over the old, very worn lining, made of fine cotton with ochre flowery stripes.

This altar door curtain was made of fragments of red silk, bound together by a median vertical axis. It is decorated with various floral motives, placed in rhombic patterns, that are stylised renderings of lotuses, honeysuckles, carnations, tulips and hyacinths, sown with golden stitched red silken threads.


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