Chasuble Front with Orphrey Cross. Chasuble: Italy, Florence; Orphrey Cross: Bohemia or Germany. Date: 1401-1500. Dimensions: Chasuble: 126.6 × 70.5 cm (49 7/8 × 27 3/4 in.)Orphrey Cross: 112 × 57.7 cm (44 × 22 3/4 in.). Chasuble: silk, plain weave with silk supplementary facing wefts, bound by secondary binding warps and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk facing wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut, pile-on-pile voided velvet; Orphrey Cross: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gilt- and-silvered-animal-substrate-wrapped linen in bullion, outline, satin, and split stitches; laid work, couching and padded couching; orphrey braid: silk and silver-gilt strip wound around silk fiber core, plain weave, open work with weft deviations; fringe: silk and gold-gilt-strip wound around silk fiber core, warp-faced plain weave with extended ground weft and supplementary patterning weft uncut fringe off one edge; lining: linen, plain weave. Origin: Fl