Sample of narrow woven banding. Seemingly from a longer textile with a main panel of silver-coloured lattice pattern. Bordered either side by a gold-coloured stripe with an undulating line pattern. Each stripe is framed with a line in its respective colour. Additionally there is a gold-coloured line next to each selvedge. A scalloped edge is formed by 7 separate silver-coloured warp threads (6 wrapped, 1 metal strip) which have their own separate weft. They are attached to the main body at every 4th weft loop.
sample (textileworking: weaving); textile
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