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Silk

Silk

Silk

Cotton with silk and gold

Embroidery cut down from a hanging-scroll mounting and framed: dyed silk satin-stitch embroidery on painted silk ground

Brown and Indigo dye on cotton textile fibers

Red, green, and black inks printed on cotton t-shirt

Combined textiles: ikat (probably Khiva, silk warp and cotton weft); broadcloth (Russia or Britain, wool, with silk thread embroidery in chain stitch); printed cottons (Bukhara and Russia) and pattern-woven cottons.

Compound silk weave; green satin warp-faced ground, patterned with white wefts binding in plain

Silk and metallic thread lampas on satin foundation

Resist-dyed red damask silk utilizing stitch-resist (nuishime shibori) and tie-dying (kanoko shibori) techniques; selected motifs embroidered with gold-paper-wrapped and polychrome silk threads

Resist-dyed gray silk crepe (chirimen) with "twilight dying" (akebono-zome) designs utilizing paste-resist (yuzenzome) and hand-painted techniques; selected motifs embroidered with polychrome silk and gold threads

Multicolored ikat-dyed silk with patterning in supplementary gold wefts; floral motifs embroidered with polychrome silk threads

Pale green-blue silk with cloud motifs painted in gold pigment; additional motifs embroidered in polychrome silk and gold threads

Compound-weave silk with supplementary gold wefts; selected motifs embroidered with polychrome silk threads

Compound-weave silk with patterning in supplementary wefts; selected motifs embroidered with gold and polychrome silk threads

Dark blue silk with "kinran" gold brocade; selected elements made of orange silk with supplementary gold wefts

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

Multicolored Ikat-dyed silk with supplementary gold wefts; floral motifs embroidered with polychrome silk threads