Page from Book of Okinawan Textiles: Nafa, Okinawa Main I., Cotton, Ordinary Cloth

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

wool pile on a foundation of cotton warps and wefts

Textile fibers

Cut and voided velvet

Wool with linen threads on wool warps. Tapestry woven

Silk

Silk and linen

Warps: 3 Z spun S plied undyed white wool, some slightly darker; alternate warps slightly depressed. Weft: 1 ply Z spun undyed buff, or dyed red (Qashqai); 2 or 3 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool. Pile colors: dark indigo blue, blue green, medium blue, yellow, yellow green, white, dark brown/black. Knots: asymmetrical, open to the left. Knots per vertical decimeter: 49. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 48. Both selvedges: rewrapped. Top end: approz 1 cm. blue and white double cloth float weaved followed by double line countered soumak in red and white. Bottom end: stripped.

Silk