Florentine Silk Velvet Costume Panel Circa 1600 pillow_trimming Finished with 17th century braids

Finished with 17th century braids and metallic tassel fringe

Hand Made in natural mordant dyed in a lovely shade of dark brick red

With a historic

Antique Hand Made Table Runner

Florentine Silk Velvet Costume Panel Circa 1600 pillow_trimming Finished with 17th century braidsA costume Panel Late 16th early 17th century Most likely Florence Magenta silk velvet voided to reveal gold metallic ground Large Pomegranate Artichoke design Full loom width with both selvage edges present This panel is over 400 hundred years old. A very rare survivor, most other examples are in Museum collections Wear, fragility, rubbing restorations Please study photographs as they do form a very important part of the description Should probably