Page from Book of Okinawan Textiles: Nafa, Okinawa Main I., Cotton, Ordinary Cloth

Fiber

Wooden frame with wool carpet

Linen and wool, tapestry woven

Brown satin ground with embroidered decoration

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

Cut velvet and satin

Warps: 3 Z spun S plied undyed white wool, some slightly darker; alternate warps slightly depressed. Weft: 1 ply Z spun undyed buff, or dyed red (Qashqai); 2 or 3 yarns per shoot. Pile: 2 S plied Z spun wool. Pile colors: dark indigo blue, blue green, medium blue, yellow, yellow green, white, dark brown/black. Knots: asymmetrical, open to the left. Knots per vertical decimeter: 49. Knots per horizontal decimeter: 48. Both selvedges: rewrapped. Top end: approz 1 cm. blue and white double cloth float weaved followed by double line countered soumak in red and white. Bottom end: stripped.

Yellow silk with selvedges intact; the basic fabric in tabby weave, the decorative medallions in damask weave