Cope of white brocade with gold and silver interlacing pattern, St Edmundsbury Weavers, 1905-1910.Cope of gold and silver metal thread and white brocade with interlacing pattern of bands of trefoil and stylised tulip heads. Cartouche forms with stylised flowers enclosed like a pineapple with flowers, spaces in between filled with gold grapes with silver leaves; smaller panels with peacocks and grapes, doves and carnations. All woven and trimmed with gold and russet cord. Green, beige, russet and grey tasselled fringe, overlaps hem by a centimetre. Woven hood stitched on below orphrey.History and Date: 20th Century. Woven by St Edmundsbury Weavers c.1905-10.
Main fabric: Gold and silver metal thread and white brocade with an interlacing pattern of bands of trefoil and stylised tulip heads. The cartouche thus formed enclose stylised flowers like a pineapple with flowers. The spaces in between are filled with gold grapes with silver leaves, and smaller panels with peacocks and grapes, and doves and carnations. All woven and trimmed with gold and russet cord.
Fringe - green, beige, russet and grey tasselled fringe, which overlaps the hem by 1cm.
Hood is also woven and stitched below the orphrey.
Stitches/threads/technique: None, as this is entirely woven. Hood is also woven and stitched on below the orphrey
