Silk brocade fabric, Lyon, France, 1760-1770. ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France.

Fabric brocaded with red silk and gold thread, with an ogival framing enclosing alternately, pairs of parrots, addorsed regardant, and a well-known Persian (or Sassanian) leaf-shaped fruit device. Ogee is a shape consisting of a concave arc flowing into a convex arc so forming an S-shaped curve with vertical ends Probably of Rhenish-Byzantine manufacture in the 12th or 13th century. 9 in. long

Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. This article describes textile weaving For other senses of this word see Weaving (disambiguation. A textile is a flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial Fibres often referred to as thread or Yarn. Silk is a natural Protein Fiber, some forms of which can be woven into Textiles The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoons Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 Silver (ˈsɪlvɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol " Ag " (argentum from the Ancient Greek: ἀργήντος - argēntos gen The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli" comes from Spanish brocado, from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth," originally past participle of broccare "to stud, set with nails," from brocco "small nail," from L. broccus "projecting, pointed. "^[1]

Brocade is typically woven on a draw loom. A loom is a Machine or device for Weaving thread or Yarn into Textiles Looms can range from very small hand-held frames to large free-standing It is a supplementary weft technique, that is, the ornamental brocading is produced by a supplementary, non-structural, weft in addition to the standard weft that holds the warp threads together. WEFT Champaign 901FM is a Community radio station in Champaign Illinois, founded in 1981 and owned by Prairie Air Inc In Weaving, the warp is the set of lengthwise Yarns through which the Weft is woven The purpose of this is to give the appearance that the weave actually was embroidered on.

Ornamental features in brocade are emphasized and wrought as additions to the main fabric, sometimes stiffening it, though more frequently producing on its face the effect of low relief. In some, but not all, brocades, these additions present a distinctive appearance on the back of the material where the supplementary weft or floating threads of the brocaded or broached parts hang in loose groups or are clipped away. WEFT Champaign 901FM is a Community radio station in Champaign Illinois, founded in 1981 and owned by Prairie Air Inc When the weft is floating on the back, this is known as a continuous brocade; the supplementary weft runs from selvage to selvage. In a woven fabric the selvage (or selvedge) is the uncut edge of the fabric which is on the right- and left-hand edges as it comes out of the Loom The yarns are cut away in cutwork and broché. Cutwork or cut work is a Needlework technique in which portions of a Textile are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with Also, a discontinuous brocade is where the supplementary yarn is only woven in the patterned areas.

See also

• Eight Pieces of Brocade
• Songket

References

1. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary

• Etymology online [1]
• Brocade paper (fragment), originally belonging to a sample book of J. The Baduanjin ( is one of the most common forms of Chinese Qigong used as exercise Songket is a fabric that belongs to the Brocade family of Textiles. M. Munck, Augsburg 1751 treasure 5 National Library of The Netherlands

• Marypaul Yates. Fabrics A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects. W. W. Norton & Co.