Some brief technical notes on samite:
6-ply warp; weft-faced satin; compound twill. may be patterned or
unpatterned, or used as base for embroidery
when patterned, more than one color is usually present in the patterning
compound weft-faced twill in silk; may have developed in Egypt or Syria and
spread from there; the inner warp used singly or in pairs or groups of
three or four; main binding warp bound weft in the same twill in both
pattern and background; design was result of color change not texture
-E House
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