I love a good Cope. Wrote about religious vestments during my MA in Costume Studies at NYU. Always wanted to do more work on the subject.
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1400-25 Cope (pluviale, choir mantle) Museum Schnuetgen, Cologne. Taken August 2015 📸CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Fantastic example of piecing of precious fabric (gold brocaded silk voided/cut velvet) by not giving a doodah about matching the design of such valuable cloth. That's a rather modern idea.
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