Velvet Inlay
Where a crown possesses arches or half-arches, the circlet of the crown below the arches or half-arches are usually filled with velvet or other cloth, or with a jewelled metal cap. Different states and different crowns may possess different coloured cloth inlays.
The most widely used colours for cloth infils are purple, as in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth and in St. Edward's Crown, and dark red, as in the Imperial Crown of Austria.
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Famous quotes containing the words velvet and/or inlay:
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Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood?”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)
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Burrow with hungry head
And inlay maggots like a jewel.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)