This red damask is from the Florentine textile collections, housed in the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence.
Silk cut velvet, brocade woven with gold thread, I suspect it may be from Venice, produced in the late 1400s.
it reminds me of the critically-endangered ‘Spider Orchid’, a species of orchid native to Australian
for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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