Embroidered towel border

Embroidered linen

Fiber

Cotton embroidered with silk and metal thread

Silver and silver gilt threads; silk satin ground

Silk on linen

Colored chain-stitched silk and metal thread on cotton

Silk twist brocaded on red silk velvet

Warp: 2 Z spun S plied wool; 1 level. Weft: 1 Z spun wool in dark red, orange, undyed brown and yellow; mostly 2 and sometimes 3/4/5 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: dark red heavily abrashed to light red, dark yellow (heavily abrashed), light green (most likely indigo sulfonic), purple, fuchsine purple (now faded), undyed white, corrosive brown. Knots: symmetrical. Both selvedges: 2 bundles of 2 green warps each. Top end: 1 cm. green tapestry weave, stripped. Top of design is bottom of rug.

Cotton embroidered with silk and metal thread

Cut voided red and green silk velvet with silver thread

Silk on linen

Cut and voided silk velvet