Brocades

Brocades
BROCADES
Originally meant a silk cloth with figuring threads of gold and silver. At the present time it indicates a figured fabric of single texture, with the figure developed or bound in a more or less irregular order, and the ground formed by a weave of a simple character. Cotton Brocades have only one warp and one weft. Silk and Upholstery Brocades may have several wefts of different colours. Name is derived from the Spanish " Brocade " (to figure). There are a great many qualities manufactured today. The illustration gives a dress-goods brocade of a super quality made from a silk warp and a super Egyptian cotton weft

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