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"description": "The English adopted a simpler style of embroidering vestments suitable for mass production around 1500. Isolated motifs, often floral, were embroidered on plain velvet, as in this ecclesiastical chasuble.
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"citation": "Young, Bonnie. \"Opus Anglicanum.\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29, no. 7 (1971): 291-98. Accessed December 20, 2020.",
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"citation": "Bergemann, Uta-Christiane. \u201cSerial Production of Embroidered Orphreys in the Late Middle Ages.\u201d in Wetter, Evelin, and Michael Bangert. Iconography of Liturgical Textiles in the Middle Ages. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2010.",
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"citation": "Browne, Clare Woodthorpe, Glyn Davies, M. A. Michael, and Michaela Zo\u0308schg. English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum. 2016.",
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