2.-Part of a Siculo-Saracenic brocade woven in the 12th Both animals and birds are separated by conventional trees, and the latter are enclosed in inscriptions of Kufic characters. Pairs of seated animals, addorsed regardant and geese vis-à-vis are worked within the lozenge-shaped compartments of the trellis framework which regulates the pattern. Along the top is the Kufic inscription “Arrahmān” (The Merciful) several times repeated in olive green on a gold-thread ground. 1.-Brocade woven in red and olive green silks and gold thread on a cream-coloured ground. These additions present a distinctive appearance on the back of the stuff where ​the weft or floating threads of the brocaded or broached parts hang in loose groups or are clipped away.įig. 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. ​ BROCADE, the name usually given to a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and with or without gold and silver threads.