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Lattice-Patterned Silk
Not on view
Silks were woven in many designs. One widely popular type was a diaper pattern that used a latticelike organizational scheme with narrow intersecting diagonal bands to create rhomboid or square fields filled with various motifs.
This silk is brocaded with a lattice pattern composed of stepped, diagonal-shaped rhomboids delineated by strings of hexagons that frame smaller hexagons or stepped rhombi. The domestic production of this kind of cloth is suggested in a contemporary documentary papyrus.