Textile Fragments with Ogival Lattice Pattern

Linen tapestry over one wool warp

Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed white wool. Wefts: 1 Z spun red wool yarn; 2-5 yarns per weft shot, usually 3, with a 2 parallel + 1 format. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: red, purple, freckled indigo, blue-green abrashed to green, bright yellow, black, white, and apricot. Knots: symmetrical; 34 knots per vertical decimeter; 30 knots per horizontal decimeter; 1020 knots per square decimeter. Right selvedge: 5 bundles of 2 warps each, wrapped with wefts. Left selvedge: 6 bundles of 2 warps each, wrapped with wefts. Top end: 2.5 cm. of red tapestry weave, stripped. Bottom end: 1-1.5 cm. of red tapestry weave, stripped.

Textile fibers

Crimson silk with gilt metallic yarns (filé)

Textile fibers

Slender strips of black bamboo, partially interwoven with dyed-silk threads and backed with mica-coated paper, surrounded by silk brocade with gilt bronze fittings and dyed-silk braid

Textile fibers

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)