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  2. Damask - Wikipedia

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    Damask. Damask (/ˈdæmÉ™sk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric. Damasks are woven by periodically reversing the action of the warp and weft threads. [1] The pattern is most commonly created with a warp-faced satin weave and the ground with a weft-faced or sateen weave. [2] Fabrics used to create damasks include silk ...

  3. Damascening - Wikipedia

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    Damascening. Damascening is the art of inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns similar to niello. The English term comes from a perceived resemblance to the rich tapestry patterns of damask silk.

  4. Brocade - Wikipedia

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    Brocade. Silk brocade fabric, Lyon, France, 1760–1770. Detail of hair-sash being brocaded on a Jakaltek Maya backstrap loom. Brocade (/ broʊˈkeɪd /) is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads. [1] The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli ...

  5. Byzantine silk - Wikipedia

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    The only survival of such work on the largest scale, the enormous Bayeux Tapestry (incomplete at 0.5 by 68.38 metres or 1.6 by 224.3 ft) is wool embroidered on a plain linen background, and not technically a tapestry at all. However smaller scale figurative hangings and clothes in silk are mentioned.

  6. G. T. van Ysselsteyn - Wikipedia

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    White figured linen damask: From the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century, 1962; van Ysselsteyn, G. T. (1969). Tapestry, the Most Expensive Industry of the 15th and 16th Centuries: a Renewed Research Into Technic, Origin and Iconography. Van Goor. De wandtapijten in het stadhuis van Maastricht (The tapestries in the Town Hall of Maastricht ...

  7. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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    William Morris (1834-1898), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward factory-produced textiles. With this goal in mind, he created his own workshop and designed dozens of patterns for hand-produced ...

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