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Resist-dyed silk damask ground detailed with stenciling and painting and with decoration embroidered in dyed silk threads and gilt-paper-wrapped threads

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

Warps: undyed white wool. Wefts: variable, including outlining wefts, eccentric wefts. Weft colors: light red, dark red, red-brown, purple (made of red and blue), light blue (abrashed), green, dark olive green, dark blue. Whites are wool and cotton combined. The rest are wool.

Linen with lace border

Wool and linen, tapestry weave

Braided and knotted purple silk cord with fringed tassels

Textile fibers

Red silk and metallic (silver, gilt) yarns filé, sequins and seed pearls