Woven Textile Fragment

Silk

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

Cotton warps; cotton wefts; wool pile in symmetrical knot.

Cotton and wool

Silk cut and uncut voided velvet

Wool

Linen tapestry over one wool warp

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.

Synthetic fibers

Blue silk gauze ground with needlepoint decoration