altar cloth

The Bircham cope, red velvet with gold, green, yellow and white stitching, in centre the Virgin is borne up by angels and flanked by seraphim, other decorative devices include foliage, fleurs-de-lis, rayed suns and double-headed birds,motifs embroidered on linen and applied to a red silk velvet cope, circa 1480, from Great Bircham, Norfolk; made into an altar cloth at a later date.