Process, step by step
- Dress the loom with a fine warp.
- Weave the ground cloth.
- Introduce supplementary wefts on the patterned picks.
- Cut and finish the reverse floats.
Variations
Historic drawloom work carries more colours per repeat than most current production.
Conservation
Store rolled rather than folded; floats abrade quickly along a fold.
Used in these crafts
Termeh
A patterned Iranian brocade woven with supplementary wefts, historically in silk and wool, associated above all with Yazd and Kerman.
Jajim
A narrow-strip flatwoven textile, usually made in warp-faced bands on a portable loom and then sewn together into a wider cloth, traditionally used as bedding cover, floor spread or door hanging by village and pastoral households.