Metaglossary.com - Definitions for "brocade"
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
Rich jacquard-woven fabric with interwoven design of raised patterns. It has an embossed appearance, sometimes with contrasting surfaces, colors, gold or silver threads.
a thick woven fabric with raised designs, typical in Victorian wedding gowns and traditionally popular in fall and winter wedding gowns.
A knit or woven fabric with a looped, knotted surface made from a rough, curly, knotted yarn. Bouclï is often used in sportswear and coats.
a multi-use formal, Jacquard woven fabric with intricate raised woven designs resembling embroidery. It is often made with variety of thread colors depicting complex patterns and scenes with a shiny finish. Background weave is often satin. To the back of the fabric, the threads are not tied-down and are carried as "floaters".
Originally of silk but can be made in cotton, linen, wool or man- made fiber. It is usually woven in one or two colors, with the additional colors applied to the woven surface, which is what distinguishes it from damask. Heavier than damask, it is often woven in silver or gold thread. It is used for curtains and special upholstery. Traditionally patterned with both floral and naturalistic motifs, the raised design is woven on a Jacquard loom and has long horizontal threads along the back.
silk or other fabric with pattern formed by extra weft.
Floating horizontal weave that is used to embellish area rugs and other textiles. Brocade is sometimes used in kilim rugs.
a thick fabric woven (often with threads of silver or gold) to form a raised design.
A heavy fabric woven to achieve a tone on tone pattern. Often the pattern is a floral or ribbon design. A lighter weight alternative to brocade is damask. This is sometimes referred to as Jacquard.
An additional weft is added to the background weave in a restricted area to create a pattern.
Raised design of flowers and figures typically made of thick and heavy material, often silk, rayon and nylon yarns.
A weaving technique whereby rows of weft floats are woven in to the fabric. Often, these floats are lined up to create geometric or representational patterns.
A rich, heavy jacquard-woven fabric with an elaborate interwoven design of flowers, foliage, scrollwork, pastoral scenes, or other designs. The pattern is emphasized by contrasting surfaces or colors and often has metallic threads running through it. The background may either be a satin weave or twill weave and is often reversible.
Rich jacquard-woven fabric with all-over interwoven design of raised figures or flowers.
Rich jacquard with all over interwoven design of raised figures or flowers. Usually silk or silk-like fabrics.
A rich, jacquard-woven fabric with an allover interwoven design of raised figures or flowers. It will display contrasting surfaces, colors, and many brocades use metallic threads for accents.
Brocade uses richly colored (sometimes metallic) threads that make the design stand out against a weave background.
A rich, heavy fabric with elaborate design (usually the patterns have a raised effect). Often the threads are colored or metallic against a satin weave background, which makes the figures stand out. The motifs may be of flowers, foliage, scrollwork, pastoral scenes, or other designs.
A fabric characterized by raised designs on a flat surface, woven in cotton, silk, wool or synthetic-fiber combinations on a jacquard loom. It can be medium to heavyweight, in tones of one color, in florals or in traditional patterns.
Usually a jacquard woven fabric in which the figure is developed by floating the warp threads, the weft threads, or both, and interlacing them in a more or less irregular order.
Heavy fabric with a raised, often floral type pattern. Made with the jacquard technique, which allows more complex designs. Brocade is great for corsets, jackets, upholstery, and anything where a heavy, intricate fabric would be needed.
A heavy, exquisite, jacquard-type fabric with an all-over raised pattern or floral design.
A heavy flat fabric, similar to brocatelle with a raised design but usually without the lustrous yarn.
A heavy rich- looking jacquard fabric with contrasting surfaces or a multicolor design . Used in upholstery , draperies evening wear.
A brocade is characterised by raised designs or patterns within the weave of the fabric.
Used in fine, formal upholstery, it has raised surface patterns resembling embroidery, often uses gold or silver thread.
A rich fabric with an embossed design, usually gold or silver.
Rich oriental fabric consisting of raised patterns, often in gold or silver.
Weft float weave used to add design and embellishment. Often seen on the kilim bands at the ends of oriental rugs.
A rich fabric on which appear raised formal floral or figurative patterns. The ground fabric is usually silk and the raised designs may be of silk of the same colour as the background or of gold or silver threads. Unless specified to the contrary, in this work the term brocade means that the raised design is of the same colour as the ground.
A kind of weave; also, a finished silk cloth which, although made on a loom, resembles embroidery. The back­ ground may be of one color or may have a warp stripe, and its weave may be taf­ feta, twill, satin, or damask. A floral or conventional pattern in slight relief is usu­ ally multicolored and is produced by the filler thread. It is woven on a Jacquard loom, and the threads that do not appear on the surface are carried across the width of the back. The finest old handmade bro­ cades all included threads of real gold or silver. Excellent for draperies and uphol­ stery, particularly in period rooms.
A figured fabric, most often silk, with raised floral or other patterns created by contrasting surfaces or colors. Often made with gold or silver threads. The design appears on the face of the fabric which is easily distinguished from the back because of the short weft threads that appear only in the area of the design.
A figured or raised fabric consisting of a simple ground and a floating or raised warp and/or weft thread.
a multi-use formal, Jacquard weave with supplemental warp or weft woven into the fabric to give an embroidered, often-colorful design. Background weave is often satin. Threads not tied-down are carried as "floaters" on the back of the fabric and indicate the supplemental set of threads.
An elaborate and richly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom using satin weave. The warp float gives a raised appearance. Originally woven in silk, but now can be made with man-made fibers, with additional silver or gold threads. Was first produced in China. Light-weight brocade is used for apparel and heavier weights for furnishings. A brocatine is a brocade with a raised pattern imitating embroidery. Latin: brocare meaning to figure.
a type of fabric with designs woven right in. Since it can be very heavy, it's a better choice for a fall or winter wedding.
An elaborate jacquard pattern often of flowers and figures standing out from the ground cloth.
A heavier fabric woven with a rich raised design to create a tone-on-tone pattern.
Asian inspired fabric style consisting of raised intricate patterns and designs.
Brocade is a jacquard-woven fabric with a pattern that is created with different colored yarns or with patterns in twill or satin weaves on a gound of plain, twill, or satin weave. It is available in a variety of fiber types and qualities.
fabric with an elaborate design woven into the fabric.
A rich fabric with a raised pattern woven into it. Brocades use richly colored, sometimes metallic threads that make the design stand out against the background.
Carpeting having a raised pattern or engraved effect, using heavy twisted yarn tufts.
heavy fabric with elaborate patterns that are raised against a ground cloth by the addition of supplementary wefts.
A heavy, elaborate fabric with raised, interwoven designs.
A jacquard fabric woven with a raised pattern or design in contrasting colors.
Originally heavy silk with an elaborate pattern in silver or gold threads. Brocade fabric has an embossed appearance.
Frequently found in formal upholstery and window treatments, this cloth is typically a Jacquard fabric with a floral design or a raised pattern.
A rich fabric with an intricate pattern created within the weave, traditionally embossed in gold or silver. This term is now applied to any flowered fabric with a raised pattern.
A heavy fabric interwoven with a rich, raised design.
A weaving technique in which an extra, and not structurally necessary, decorative thread is laid in, weft-wise, during the weaving process.
A heavy exquisite jacquard type fabric with an all-over floral design or raised pattern.
a multi-use, formal, Jacquard weave with supplemental warp or weft woven into the fabric to give an embroidered effect and often-colorful design. Many times the background weave is satin.
Heavy, rich fabric woven with raised pattern resembling embroidery. Used for upholstery; sometimes drapery.
A heavy fabric woven with a rich, raised design or pattern.
Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and with or without gold and silver threads. It is typically woven on a draw loom. It is a supplementary weft technique, that is, the ornamental brocading is produced by a supplementary, non-structural, weft in addition to the standard weft that holds the warp threads together.
Common term that describes an effect like a PEONY, in other words an expanding sphere of stars, the brocade having more peristance. In the case of gold, it is similar to Willow, Palm and Kamuro effects. Video clip shows an eight inch Vulcan brocade shell fired by Kimbolton.
Long burning stars that produce a willow effect, however doesn't last as long as a Kamuro.
A spider like effect in the sky, much like fine lace. The brocade effect is generally a silver tail effect, and is brighter than the willow or tiger tail effect. Most brocade effects use glitter to produce the long brocade tails.
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A textured finish made by pressing a flat metal or wooden hand trowel into wet joint compound and quickly pulling it away.