Damask
type: Concept
in scheme: scheme
preferred label: Damast @de
broader: Materials by form
change note:
  comment: initial version
  created: 2021-05-26T13:40:58+00:00
  creator: Elena Chestnova
definition: In Semper's understanding a damask is "ein Brokat ohne Gold" (see Ms_216_230). This is very different from how most specialists today would describe it and might well have been different to how Semper's contemporaries thought of it. A damask today is single colour material, in which the motif is woven by the alteration in the structure of the weave. Whether a damask is a type of brocade is debatable. Some specialists will say that brocade for them is such when a different colour is used in the weft.
change note:
  creator: Elena Chestnova
  modified: 2022-05-18T19:11:26+00:00
notation: THING0322