A silk woven, patterned fabric. The ground is a 5 end satin, 3 shift. The pattern is created with both lisere and lance effects of the ground and supplementary wefts. The pattern is of geometric, 6 sided, connected units with floral icons inside each unit. The fragment has the base edge and one side of selvedge.
Warp
1) ground
silk, 1-ply, Slight S
tawn
app. 110 ends cm
Weft
Ratio 2:1
1) ground (lisere)
silk, x-ply, STA
tawn
app. 32 picks cm
2) supplementary lance
silk, x-ply, STA
gold, aqua, red,