Bridal Coat with Phoenix and Floral Decor

Silk

Embroidery on silk

Silk ikat in plain weave

Yellow silk twill ground with embroidered decoration

Handwoven maguey fiber

Compound silk weave; red satin warp-faced ground, patterned with white wefts binding in plain

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.

wool pile on a foundation of cotton warps and wefts