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Patterns such as brocade, brocatelle, damask and tapestry-like fabrics are known as jacquard patterns.

In the living room, the central and largest window framed a magnificent view, and swagged silk brocatelle draperies framed the window.

It is where he indulges his current fascination with ancient Persia, piling gold on top of gold, sequins on embroideries, lace on brocatelle.

The walls are covered in a blue-green brocatelle silk recreated by Scalamandre from scraps of the original that the Austins bought in Venice.

Gold linen and silk brocatelle stripes encased the sofas and armchairs - giving the effect of so many yolk-bright Easter eggs rolled out on a royal blue rug.

A virtuoso piece, it combines oak, ebony, rosewood, amaranth, fruitwood, aventurine and Spanish brocatelle marble, and is festooned with gilded mounts in foliate motifs.

Now comfortably worn-looking, they include a gold-colored brocatelle with a raised design of cornucopias in the drawing room, and a crimson damask shot with gold in the dining room.

A midcentury classic by Harry Bertoia is covered in Brocatelle cotton and viscose cut velvet in Schiaparelli pink, by Designer's Guild; $250 a yard.

Franco Scalamandré opened his fabric mill in 1929 in Long Island City, Queens, and one of the first orders was a silk brocatelle for the estate of William Randolph Hearst.

The enlisted man made a rude, whispered jest at the Lady's expense and was rebuked by his officer as the two brought their burden into the room and dropped him onto the brocatelle spread of his wide bed.

Of the Victorian furnishings and decoration, the bright green curtains were replaced by silk and linen brocatelle, re-woven from a fragment of material found in the house, with a pattern of stylised pomegranates and pineapples.

Crowds at the Chicago and New York shows were impressed enough with La Comtesse (and its "platinum brocatelle fabric" interior) to encourage Chrysler to come out with a car specifically targeted to women the next year.

But until this week a reader of the guide's descriptions would have wondered what had happened to the "rich henna of Ezra Winter's large mural above the stairway" or the brocatelle wall covering or the works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henry Billings, Stuart Davis and others.

Dalmatics are red velvet and gold brocatel, chasubles are of Granadine silk embroidered with silvery blue panels of saints.