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Cloth of gold woven with golden strips Cloth of gold or gold cloth ( Latin : Tela aurea ) is a fabric woven with a gold -wrapped or spun weft —referred to as "a spirally spun gold strip". In most cases, the core yarn is silk , wrapped ( filé ) with a band or strip of high content gold.
Prince (1485–1509) – Henry's childhood and youth, prior to his accession; Warrior (1509–1525) – Henry's continental military ambitions, the Battle of the Spurs and their final frustration by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the battle of Pavia, followed by the Field of the Cloth of Gold
George Payne Rainsford James, the British novelist, dramatised the meeting in his second novel, Darnley: or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold (1830). The Showtime series The Tudors dramatised the meeting in its first season (2007). The plot of Magnus Mills' 2015 novel, entitled The Field of the Cloth of Gold, echoes elements of the meeting.
Chinese ornamental gold silk is a type of silk fabric which employs gold as ornamentation; Chinese ornamental gold silk originated in China and have a long history in China. [1] Gold and silk were precious goods; the combination of both in textiles created one of the most valuable commodities.
Kimkhwab (Kim-Khwab, kamkhāb, ḳamkhwāb, Kimkhwab, Hiranya, puspapata) is an ancient Indian brocade art of weaving ornate cloth with gold, silver, and silk yarns. Kinkhwab is a silk damasked cloth with an art of zar-baft (making cloth of gold), [1] The weave produces beautiful floral designs that appear embroidered on the surface of the fabric. it was also known as puspapata or cloth with ...
For those of royal blood, there were robes and mantles of samite and cloth of gold. [15] Samite might be interwoven with threads wrapped in gold foil. It could be further enriched by being over-embroidered: in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail (1180s) "On the altar, I assure you, there lay a slain knight. Over him was spread ...
Brocade (/ b r oʊ ˈ k eɪ d /) 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 from Italian broccato meaning 'embossed cloth', originally past participle of the verb broccare 'to stud, set with ...
The Supertunica of George IV was a straight coat of gold cloth decorated with gold flowers and lined with crimson taffeta. The Supertunica was around 1.25 yards (1.14 m) in length and 3 yards (2.7 m) in circumference at the bottom of the skirt. A belt of cloth of gold, lined with white tabby weave fabric supported his sword scabbard. [7]