Dress fabric of silk satin woven with silks, Iran, 1850-1899 Dress fabric of silk satin woven with silks. Woven silk, satin ground, cut on the bias. Warp: dark blue or possibly black, light blue, red, yellow silk, all Z-twist Weft: red, pink, brown, green, light blue, yellow silk, all indeterminable twist Striped pattern. [1] dark blue or possibly black ground with a small floral element in two variations in red edged in blue with green leaves edged in yellow. [2] yellow ground with a small floral element in red with green leaves edged in brown. Each stripe is edged with a very narrow light blue, red and light blue borders.