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2. Brocade - Wikipedia

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   During the Early Middle Ages, brocade fabrics were available only to the wealthiest of people as the Byzantine emperor charged extreme prices for the fabric. The designs woven into brocade fabrics were often Persian in origin. It was also common to see Christian subjects depicted in the complex weaves of the fabric. When these luxurious fabrics ...

3. Bizarre silk - Wikipedia

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   Bizarre silks were woven on the drawloom, and the colorful patterns were brocaded or created with floating pattern wefts ().At the height of the fashion, the average repeat of a bizarre silk pattern was 27 inches (69 cm) high and ten inches (26 cm) wide, repeating twice across the width of the fabric. [4]

4. Banarasi sari - Wikipedia

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   As per the GI certificate, Banarasi products fall under four classes (23–26), namely silk brocades, textile goods, silk sari, dress material and silk embroidery. Most importantly this means that no sari or brocade made outside the six identified districts of Uttar Pradesh , that is, Varanasi , Mirzapur , Chandauli , Bhadohi , Jaunpur and ...

5. Kimkhwab - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Mashru - Wikipedia

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   Silk merchants in the 19th century Mashru (also historically spelled mashroo , misru , mushroo or mushru ) is a woven cloth that is a blend of silk and cotton . It was historically a hand-woven satin silk fabric variety found in the Indian subcontinent , and its proper use is described in the 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari .

7. Sichuan embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Sichuan embroidery is one of the so-called "four great embroideries of China" along with Cantonese embroidery, Suzhou embroidery and Xiang embroidery.Throughout its history, Sichuan embroidery developed a quality of being smooth, bright, neat, and influenced by its own geographical environment, various customs and cultures, with significant foreign influences being Sasanian, Sogdian and ...