Damask
a rich silk stuff originally made at Damascus, and thence deriving its name. It had raised figures in various patterns, and flowers in their natural colors embossed upon a white or colored ground. The work was probably of the nature of embroidery in first place nature of embroidery in the first place, but the figures were afterward exhibited on the surface by a peculiar arrangement of the loom, which brought up certain of the colors and depressed others, according to the requirements of the pattern.
Also a woven fabric of linen, extensively used for table-cloths, fine toweling, 17-Vol. III-Cyc DAMIEN napkins, etc. By a particular management of the warp-threads in the loom, figures, fruits, and flowers are exhibited on the surface, as in the ancient damask.