Embroidered Edging from a Cover or Hanging

Fiber

Silk in 'kesi' tapestry weave, elements woven in metallic gold threads

The support medium is twill. The technique is brocade. The shape/form is "kesa

Wool, tapestry woven

Long-armed cross and four-sided silk stitch on a cotton ground.

Wool

Wool warps and wool wefts

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.

Compound-weave silk with supplementary gold wefts; selected motifs embroidered with polychrome silk threads

'Kesi' tapestry mounted as a hanging scroll; silk woven in tapestry weave, selected details painted with brush and pigment