Historical information

Cloth of gold is a luxurious, historically significant fabric woven with real gold (or gilt) threads, often wrapped around a silk core, creating a stiff, heavy, and incredibly expensive material used for royal robes, tapestries, and ceremonial vestments, symbolizing immense wealth and power, famously seen at the Field of the Cloth of Gold event.

Physical description

One of two pieces of a sari, cloth of gold woven with silk warps and gold thread weft. The selvedge has a decorative band of lions, stags and horses with flowers and scatterd motifs on the main area.