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The original function of the precious textile is unknown, but it may have been a liturgical vestment. At a later stage, the piece was lined with plain-woven linen. The embroidery is  worked in a fragmented circle and lozenge decorated with foliate crosses and  scrollwork. At some later stage, the embroidery fragments were assembled into a seal bag, now opened to lie flat.","physicalDescription":"Two panels of embroidered plain-woven purple silk, cut down from a larger piece into two smaller panels and crudely joined with a blue wool thread along one edge. The other edge has similar stitches in blue and is bound with a linen braid. At a later stage, the piece was lined with plain-woven linen. 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