the cloth has needed the backing fabric roughly stitched to its underside to avoid complete disintegration. As recently as 1997 it narrowly escaped incineration in another fire, and it wasn't ...

Named after the gold-embellished fabric used to craft the tents, costumes and decorations, the Field of Cloth of Gold cost the modern equivalent of some £15 million pounds, or almost $19 million.

Cloth of gold is an even rarer commodity today than ... such as an embossed wallcovering or nubbly linen fabric, or to concentrate on a defined area. The latter option was used to great effect ...

The Mongols created exceptionally sumptuous cloths of gold to symbolize their imperial authority and legitimacy, this being the most resplendent example known. Opulent expanses of gold thread enrich ...

The ancient gold fabric and an outline of a possible design pattern. Photo from F. Médard and F.Gauchet / Inrap Originally, the ancient cloth may have had a plant or floral-themed design ...

Only when a strand of fabric caught the sunlight did someone ... brown fragment identified it as the remains of a piece of "cloth-of-gold velvet", a once prestigious, valuable and rare material.