Silk, silver gilt strips, and gold gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and supplementary brocading wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in twill interlacing

Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by supplementary binding wefts

Silk, plain weave with self-patterning ground wefts

Antoine, couronné de lauriers, s'avance vers la gauche suivi de plusieurs guerriers ; la reine Cléopâtre, couronnée et accompagnée elle aussi de plusieurs suivants, lui baise la main droite et lui presse la main gauche. Dominante jaune. Bordure à arabesques et oiseaux sur fond jaune.

Linen and silk, compound weave (i.e.: Beiderwand or lampas 2:1)

Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts self-patterned by areas of plain weave

Silk, warp-float faced satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in plain interlacing

Silk, gold gilt strips, and gold gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts

Silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut, uncut, and voided velvet

Silk and linen, warp-float faced satin weave self-patterned by areas of twill interlacing

Silk, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading weft tied in twill interlacing polychrome

Silk and silvered- and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts

Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in double running and back stitches

1700, Italy

1700, Italy

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