Book Cover for the Holy Bible
c. 1700
- Medium
- Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk creped yarns, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and gilt-metal purl in reverse tent, satin, and tent stitches; couching and French knots
- Classification
- Book
- Dimensions
- 15.6 × 9.6 × 4.7 cm (6 1/8 × 3 3/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
