Ground: deep cream colored silk (paired warps tied by single weft); Design: ogee formed by conventionalized grape vines, filled with delicate scrolling vines and a pair of squirrels woven with yellow [illegible hand-drawn mark] weft tied by green silk warp.

Ground: faded yellowish satin, once pink with marked diagonal. Design: pairs of birds, (only partly seen) in pointed ovals with, ogival frame, and delicate leaves and tendrils, woven with green silk weft, and a little white silk weft. Both the green and white are carried from selvedge to selvedge.

Ground: faded bluish grey warp twill, (alternate warps paired) tied by greyish blue weft.  Design: symmetrical trees to which pairs of animals are chained; cartouches with simulated Arabic letters, and pairs of birds, woven with tarnished gold weft (gilded skin wound on line), tied with a fine neutral silk weft. Worn.

Fine XVI inizio XVII secolo

Fine XVI inizio XVII secolo