Embroidered towel border

Silk satin ground, silver and silver gilt threads

Silk pile on a foundation of silk warps and cotton and silk wefts

Cut and voided silk velvet

Cut voided red and green silk velvet with silver thread

Silk on linen

Cotton embroidered with silk and metal thread

Cotton embroidered with silk and metal thread

Silk twist brocaded on red silk velvet

Wool

Colored chain-stitched silk and metal thread on cotton

Silk on linen

Warp: 2 Z spun S plied wool; 1 level. Weft: 1 Z spun wool in dark red, orange, undyed brown and yellow; mostly 2 and sometimes 3/4/5 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: dark red heavily abrashed to light red, dark yellow (heavily abrashed), light green (most likely indigo sulfonic), purple, fuchsine purple (now faded), undyed white, corrosive brown. Knots: symmetrical. Both selvedges: 2 bundles of 2 green warps each. Top end: 1 cm. green tapestry weave, stripped. Top of design is bottom of rug.