Small Hamadan Carpet

Silk and metallic threads

Silk with metallic (silver and gilt) yarns filé

Satin-stitch embroidery using multicolored silk flosses on a black silk satin ground

Silk, woven with complementary wefts, inner warps, and binding warps in plain weave (taqueté)

Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed ivory wool on 2 distinct levels. Wefts: 1 Z spun wool in red, white and ornage; 2 yarns per shoot; pronounced lazy lines. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied woo. Pile colors: dark red (abrashed), pale orange, pale red (shifting from orange-ish to purplish), yellow-beige, very pale green, light grey, blue grey, dark blue, white undyed wool, dark black-brown, and white cotton which has turned a sort of ecru color. Knots: symmetrical. Woven upside down. 70 knots per vertical decimeter. 45 knots per horizontal decimeter. Both selvedges: replaced. Top end: 1 cm. green and red tapestry weave, stripped. Bottom end: 1 1/2 cm. green tapestry weave in 1/2 cm green and red stripes, stripped. Woven upside down.

Textile fibers

Cut, voided silk velvet with brocaded metallic thread

Jute and cellophane, broken twill weave

Warp-faced satin foundaton with continuous and discontinuous patterning wefts

Linen and wool

Wool on undyed linen