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Mass robe (large garment for a Catholic clergyman) made of embellished velvet and silk knitting
(رداء قداس لباس كبير لرجل دين كاثوليكي مصنوع من مخمل مزين وحياكة حريرية)

Title	Mass robe (large garment for a Catholic clergyman) made of embellished velvet and silk knitting
Title Original	رداء قداس لباس كبير لرجل دين كاثوليكي مصنوع من مخمل مزين وحياكة حريرية
Publication Date:	Velvet: fifteenth century Silk: second half of the sixteenth century
Publication Place	- Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK
Subject	Silk, broche velvet, broche lambas, bronze
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	T 7682
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus21;42;ar
Library Location	Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK
Date	Velvet: fifteenth century Silk: second half of the sixteenth century
Notes	The priest's Mass robe is a pasticcio wrap composition made up of older Italian appliquéd velvet and a transverse Mass robe of Ottoman silk, the latter silk having oval openings filled with tulips, carnations and flowered scrolls, a typical decoration of Ottoman silk weaving of the time. This composition of fabrics for the priest's Mass robe shows that there were no reservations about using fabric from Islamic regions for Christian church clothing in terms of its beautiful appearance.
Sample Text	“Requiem robe (large garment of a Catholic clergyman) made of embellished velvet and silk knitting” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus21;42;ar

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Mass robe (large garment for a Catholic clergyman) made of embellished velvet and silk knitting

(رداء قداس لباس كبير لرجل دين كاثوليكي مصنوع من مخمل مزين وحياكة حريرية)

Publication Date Velvet: fifteenth century Silk: second half of the sixteenth century

Publication Place - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK

Subject Silk, broche velvet, broche lambas, bronze

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID T 7682

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus21;42;ar

Library Location Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK

Date Velvet: fifteenth century Silk: second half of the sixteenth century

Notes The priest's Mass robe is a pasticcio wrap composition made up of older Italian appliquéd velvet and a transverse Mass robe of Ottoman silk, the latter silk having oval openings filled with tulips, carnations and flowered scrolls, a typical decoration of Ottoman silk weaving of the time. This composition of fabrics for the priest's Mass robe shows that there were no reservations about using fabric from Islamic regions for Christian church clothing in terms of its beautiful appearance.

Sample Text “Requiem robe (large garment of a Catholic clergyman) made of embellished velvet and silk knitting” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus21;42;ar