Brocade
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A short encyclopedia entry defining brocade as a stuff of gold, silver, or silk enriched with flowers, foliage, and other ornaments. It explains that the term once meant cloth woven entirely of gold or silver thread in warp and weft, then extended to fabrics with silk used to raise and finish metal-thread figures. By the time of writing, any figured stuff, even plain silk satins, taffetas, or lustrings, was called brocade.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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