Patterned fabric - Monorimono

A general term for textiles made by combining various weaves and weaving complex patterns using colored threads. Some patterns have more than 40 warp and weft threads, and many of them use colored threads to create beautiful patterns on the surface of the fabric, and are also known as jacquard textiles. There are many types, such as crested habutae, crested meshi, crested crepe, donsu, shuchin, brocade, damask, and necktie fabric. In the past, in Japan, they were woven on a sorahikihata (introduced from China, declined during the Meiji period), and some were highly artistic, but in the Meiji period, jacquard machines were introduced from France to Nishijin, Kyoto, and expensive crested textiles became available to the common people.

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種々な組織を組み合わせ、また色糸を使用して複雑な紋柄を織り出した織物の総称。一つの柄模様が経緯(たてよこ)糸とも40本以上数千本のものもあり、多くは色糸を使って、織物表面に美しい柄模様を出したもので、別名ジャカード織物ともいう。たとえば紋羽二重(はぶたえ)、紋お召(めし)、紋縮緬(ちりめん)、緞子(どんす)、朱珍(しゅちん)、金襴(きんらん)、ダマスク、ネクタイ地など種類が多い。昔わが国では空引機(そらひきはた)（中国より伝来、明治期に衰退した）で織られ、非常に芸術性の高度なものもあるが、明治期に入って京都西陣(にしじん)にジャカード機がフランスより導入され、高価であった紋織物も庶民のものとなった。

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