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"title": "Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115",
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"description": "Although missing the central decorative band, these two velvet panels embroidered with angels and thistles originally formed part of the back of an ecclesiastical chasuble.
The term opus anglicanum, or English work, refers to English embroidery dating from the 1100s through the 1500s, like this example. Made primarily in embroidery guilds in London, it was in great demand for royal and ecclesiastical garments and furnishings throughout Europe.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. 1971. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1970.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58 (2): 22\u201371.",
"page_number": "p. 79 no. 119, illus. p. 31",
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"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1970.\u201d 1971. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58 (6): 162\u201394.",
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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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"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/3258645"
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"citation": "Christa Mayer-Thurman. 1973. \u201cRecent Acquisition: An English Cope.\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973-1982) 67 (2).",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 123",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
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"citation": "Staniland, Kay. Embroiderers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.",
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"citation": "Monnas, Lisa. 1994. \"Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: The Whalley Abbey Vestments\". Textile History. 25:1.",
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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": "Heard, Kate. \u201c\u2018All holie companye of heaven\u2019: Uniformity and Individuality in the Iconography of Late Medieval English Orphreys.\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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"citation": "Michael, M. A. The Age of Opus Anglicanum. 2016.",
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