Medallion Oushak Carpet (in five pieces): Central royal blue medallion containing arabesques and vines, flanked by lobbed half medallions on a brick red arabesque, vine and carnation-filled field, within a royal blue palmette-filled border

Silk chenille and metallic yarns (silver and gilt filé)

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

Silk

Silk velvet brocade with metallic wrapped thread

Silk lampas

Resist-dyed orange silk utilizing the tie-dye (kanoko shibori) technique; selected motifs embroidered in polychrome silk and gold

Silk brocade with metallic yarns filé

cut and voided silk velvet with metal thread

Silk, cut and voided velvet

Textile fibers

Cut and voided silk velvet brocaded with silver threads