Sitaurian brocade

Sitaurian brocade

Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli," comes from Italian broccato meaning "embossed cloth," originally past participle of the verb broccare "to stud, set with nails," from brocco, "small nail," from Latin broccus, "projecting, pointed.

Brocade 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. The purpose of this is to give the appearance that the weave actually was embroidered on.

In Guatemala, brocade is the most popular technique used to decorate fabric woven by Maya weavers on backstrap looms.

Ornamental features in brocade are emphasized and wrought as additions to the main fabric, sometimes stiffening it, though more frequently producing on its face the effect of low relief. In some, but not all, brocades, these additions present a distinctive appearance on the back of the material where the supplementary weft or floating threads of the brocaded or broached parts hang in loose groups or are clipped away. When the weft is floating on the back, this is known as a continuous brocade; the supplementary weft runs from selvage to selvage. The yarns are cut away in cutwork and broché. Also, a discontinuous brocade is where the supplementary yarn is only woven in the patterned areas.

Sitauria is the name for both a Civilization and a Planet in the Spinward Sector of the Milky Way Galaxy. [2] The Sitaurians are known for their high level of artisan craftsmanship manufacturing textiles. Textiles are manufactured in very small guild shops on muscle or water powered looms using the very fine fiber of a local plant.

Sitaurian Brocade and velvets are high prized luxury fabrics, where the yard can exceed prices of over 500 Credits. It is a favorite material used in the tailoring of the finest hand made business suits.

[1] Furthest Union System – Spinward Sector (Galactic East)

[2]( The Planet is part of the Kaaria System in the Outer Norma Spiral Arm.) Union exploration and expansion into the Spinward Sector has been very sparse. Normal Union space expansion ends around the Saresii Home world and the Threshold System where the Bridge to Andromeda begins)