brocading
English
Noun
brocading (plural brocadings)
- The pattern or decoration made by brocading.
- 1864, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 218
- the opening of the robe shows an under-dress of very beautiful shaded lutestring, the ground of which is white, but it is enriched with shades and brocadings of every possible colour.
- 1973, Dimand and Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 71 [1]
- "Versions of Herat rugs made in Isfahan in the time of Shah Abbas have, in most cases, deep colors-dark red in the field, dark blue in the border-and a brocading of metal threads"
- 1864, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, page 218
Verb
brocading