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2. 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 [brōˈkād] 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", comes ...

3. Chinese clothing - Wikipedia

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   Colourful brocade is a silk woven into various patterns in five colours, which is often used as clothing for half arms and collar edges. Special palace brocade, the pattern has the shape of pheasant, sheep fighting, phoenix, swimming scale, and the colour is gorgeous. Embroidery, including five-colour embroidery and gold and silver thread ...

4. Byzantine silk - Wikipedia

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   Byzantine silks are significant for their brilliant colours, use of gold thread, and intricate designs that approach the pictorial complexity of embroidery in loom-woven fabric. Byzantium dominated silk production in Europe throughout the Early Middle Ages , until the establishment of the Italian silk-weaving industry in the 12th century and ...

5. Brocatelle - Wikipedia

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   Brocatelle is a silk-rich fabric with heavy brocade designs. The material is characterized by satin effects standing out in relief in the warp against a flat ground. It is produced with jacquard weave by using silk, rayon, cotton, or many synthetic yarns. [1] [2]

6. Wrapper (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Wrapper (clothing) A group of Nigerian women wearing a blouse and wrapper sets with Gele . The wrapper, lappa, or pagne is a colorful garment widely worn in West Africa by both men and women. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored ensembles.

7. Mola (art form) - Wikipedia

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   Mola (art form) The Mola or Molas is a hand-made textile that forms part of the traditional women's clothing of the indigenous Guna people from Panamá. Their clothing includes a patterned wrapped skirt (saburet), a red and yellow headscarf (musue), arm and leg beads (wini), a gold nose ring (olasu) and earrings in addition to the mola blouse ...