The mitre has two lappets (infulae) that hang down the back of the mitre. They are generally embroidered.
Sources:
- BAILEY, Sarah (2013), Clerical Vestments, Shire Library, Oxford, pp. 22-25.
- COATSWORTH, Elizabeth (2012). 'Mitre', in: Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward (eds.). Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, c. 450-1450, Brill: Leiden, pp. 370.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 11 March 2017).
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