One of a Pair of Insignia Badges with Double-Leopard Decoration

Red silk velvet with a gold and paste pattern applied to the surface

Wool, tapestry woven

Cotton

Warps: undyed white cotton, 2 Z spun S plied. 34 warps per decimeter. Wefts: wool, Z spun; varied pairs and singles per shot. Extremely eccentric wefts, supplementary wefts for broceaded ornaments. Weft color: blue (heavily abrashed), red (heavily abrashed), green (probably indigo sulfonic, heavily abrashed), yellow, undyed white, light purply brown, corrosive brown, genuine purple/aubergine. Both selvedges: return wefting. Top and bottom: between 8 and 11 warps in a knotted fringe.

Silk

Wool pile

Silk

Ramie with vegetable dyes and mineral pigments; stenciled and freehand paste-resist decoration applied on both sides of fabric

Ink on silk

Silk brocade: rust red silk ground of dyed yarns in tabby weave, the ground interwoven in brocade weave with flat strips of double-layered paper faced with gold leaf