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The Master is named after the Parement de Narbonne, a unique painted silk altar frontal or parament found in the former Cathedral of Saint Just at Narbonne and now in the Louvre in Paris. The Parement of Narbonne is 2.86 metres (9 ft 5 in) long and 77.5 centimetres (30.5 in) high, and is painted in black ink (strictly, grisaille ) on silk .
The male has a black head, bluish-grey beak, dark-brown irises, and its wings have a yellow patch. Its upper-parts are brown, its lower parts are turquoise blue, its back is brown, the tail is olive green tipped pale blue, and its legs are pink-grey. The female is a dull-green parrot with a grey-brown head and pink undertail coverts.
The larvae have silk glands which are located on the labium. These glands are modified salivary glands. They use these silk glands to make silk for cocoons and shelters. [21] Located below the labrum are the mandibles. [64] On each side of the head there are usually six stemmata just above the mandibles. These stemmata are arranged in a semicircle.
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The frontlets have been interpreted as functioning as headdresses based on the reduction of the antlers to make them lighter, the inclusion of perforations for a strap or cord to be attached, and the smoothing of the interior of the braincase for a more comfortable fit on a human head. [3]
Thin silk, the material used for kanmuri, is called ra (羅). ra is a textile using the leno weaving technique, invented in China and produced in Japan by the 7th century. [7] The kanmuri for nobles of the fifth rank and above had patterns woven into the ra using a special technique. The ra with this pattern was called monra (文羅, lit.