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

Fiber

Wool

Silk lampas

Silk

Linen and wool, tapestry woven

Cotton, wool, and linen fibers

Silk and metallic yarns (or nué) on cut velvet

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

Warp: tightly wound 2 ply undyed white wool. Structural weft: 1 ply Z spun. Decorative (soumak) weft: all 2 Z spun S ply. Colors: yellow, red, blue, dark blue, green, white, undyed brown, aubergine, orange. Countered soumak: light and dark red, aubergine, orange, yellow, light and dark blue. Mildly corrosive brown. 78 rows soumak per vertical decimeter. 72 decorative warps per horizontal decimeter. Both selvedges: 1 bundle of 3 warps wrapped in red brocading. Top end: 3.5 cm. slit tapestry kilim with 1 cm. brocade wefts, doubled (to 4 ply). Bottom end: cut. Which is top and which is bottom is unclear.