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fabric so rich it wore the weight of empires and bankrupted the lords who flaunted it
raised threadswoven, not embroidered, despite looking stitched on
gold-lacedoften woven with real gold or silver thread
byzantine guardemperors banned commoners from owning certain silks
name originfrom Italian broccato, meaning embossed cloth
loom marathoncomplex patterns took weeks on a single loom