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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

discoloured. Thick soft yarn. Ground plain, pattern in
large twill. Large design containing curved masses of
foliage or feathers (?), unintelligible from these frs. (a) sug-
gests necks and breasts of two confronting birds; cf.
Ch. 00293. b. Gr. fr. 9⅜″×2⅜″.

Ch. 00487. a-b. Two frs. of figured silk (broken
suspension loop) with damask lining. Frayed and rotten.
Weave, a fine satin twill. Pattern of small floral type woven
in stripes of different colours; central one only preserving
design and showing small four-leaved plant (light green)
repeating lengthways on dark brown ground. Side-stripes
have cream ground, and pattern resp. in bright blue and
orange, and orange and yellow; but edges of pattern pre-
served. Damask of brownish grey shows part of floral
pattern. Each fr. c. 3⅜″×1″.

Ch. 00488. Fr. of silk damask, brilliant reddish-
pink, glazed. Ground woven in small pattern in larger
twill, running in opposite directions. Design: circular four-
petalled rosettes and lozenges (formed of four small lozenges),
repeating in alternate rows. 4″×⅜″.

Ch. 00489. Fr. of silk damask (forming suspension
loop). Light pink, faded; fine soft weave. Ground plain,
pattern twill. Design: two lines of chevron intersecting so
as to form series of lozenges, and bearing at angles on either
side elliptical four-petalled rosettes. Beyond these again
were other chevron lines. Round intersections of chevron
lines are woven also four small lozenges, forming another
type of elongated rosettes, in rows between the elliptical.
7⅜″×1⅜″.

Ch. 00490. Strip of silk damask, grass green, fine
weave. Ground plain, pattern twill. Design: elliptical
rosettes with spot centre (1⅛″×⅞″), repeating in alternate
rows with smaller four-armed crosses. Design widely spaced.
Fair condition. 10″×1⅜″.

Ch. 00491. Fr. of silk damask, dull purple, very fine
weave. Ground plain, pattern twill. Design: small motifs
repeating in widely scattered rows set out diagonally. There
remain (i) row of pointed leaves incomplete, perhaps in pairs;
(ii) row of elliptical four-petalled rosettes; (iii) row of small
flying birds (?) with spray in beak; (iv) rosettes again.
1′ 5″×2″–3″.

Ch. 00492. Three frs. of silk damask, bright light
red. Fair condition; soft fine weave. Plain ground;
pattern, a very occasional, small flower motif, spray, rosette,
or leaf with tendril in twill, set out in rows. Gr. length
1′ 7⅜″.

Ch. 00493. Misc. frs. of silk damask (remains of
banner streamers); light terra-cotta, fine soft texture. Ground
plain, pattern twill. Design: lozenge-shaped rosettes formed
of four trilobate petals, repeating in rows. Least ragged fr.
1′ 3″×1⅜″.

Ch. 00494. Fr. of silk damask, light red, surface
glazed. Ground plain, pattern twill. Design: small repeat-
ing lozenge-shaped rosette, four-petalled. 6″×1⅜″.

Ch. 00495. a-b. Two frs. of silk damask, dark
blue, soft rather loose weave. Ground and pattern
woven in twills running in opposite directions. Design:
a small repeating circular rosette, five-petalled, somewhat
irregularly executed in parts. (a) 1′ 2″×5″, (b) 2′ 9″×2⅜″.

Ch. 00496. Strip of silk damask (banner streamer);
indigo, fine close weave. Ground plain; pattern, small
repeating lozenge, woven in broken twill. 2′ 11⅜″×1⅜″.

Ch. 00497. Four banner streamers of silk
damask with weighting-board attached. Damask bright
blue, fine weave; ground plain, pattern twill. Design:
a rather large semi-conventional floral pattern, somewhat
on lines of Ch. 00351. Ground-work lattice of branches
diversified by buds, bracts, and pairs of volute leaves, and
forming at intervals rows of elongated hexagonal spaces in
which are rosettes. Considerably torn. Weighting-board
covered with salmon-red silk damask, of similar weave,
pattern indistinguishable, stencilled on top with lotus and
leaf design. Length of streamers 4′ 1″, weighting-board
1′ 0⅜″×2⅜″.

Ch. 00498. a-b. Two ragged strips of silk
damask, (a) light red, (b) wine-colour, tacked together and
orig. forming part of picture; stencilled in heavy greyish-
black paste with canopy, etc. Silk too broken to show
designs complete. Both woven with plain ground and
pattern in large twill: (a) glazed on surface. (a) shows part
of circular 'spot', with scrolled border and rosette in centre;
(b) a smaller all-over floral design, complete arrangement
of which cannot be made out. Length (mostly completely
frayed) 2′ 4″, width c. 5″.

Ch. 00499. Three banner streamers of silk
damask, bluish green, faded; fine close weave. Pattern:
an all-over concentric lozenge diaper, passing at times into
form of key-pattern as in Ch. 00333, 00430. Length 2′ 6″,
width of streamers 2″.

Ch. 00500. Three banner streamers of silk
damask, blue, dirt-stained; fine weave. Pattern: con-
centric lozenge diaper turning into key-pattern rather more
complicated than above. Length of streamer 3′ 3″, width
2⅜″.

Ch. 00501. a-b. Two frs. of silk damask (one
double), faded purple, very fine close weave. Pattern: diaper
of concentric lozenges turning into form of key-pattern like
Ch. 00333, etc. (a) 1′ 0⅜″×3⅜″, (b) 1′ 5″×(gr. width) 3⅜″.

Ch. 00502. Fr. of silk damask; very soft
rather loose weave. Printed design too fragmentary to be
intelligible; but apparently had bluish-green ground leaving
large circles or lozenges in light buff. Damask design, an
all-over series of chevron lines, readjusted occasionally so
as to form series of lozenge spaces filled with concentric
lozenges. C. 1′×4″ to 5″.

Ch. 00503. Fr. of silk damask, golden yellow, very
soft, rather loose weave. Ground plain; pattern, small
lozenge lattice-work in twill. 5⅜″×3⅜″.