Traditional brocades are fabrics woven of gold or silver strings. These fabric is highly precious and very fine and elegant. Usually, Warps are pure silk and wefts are colorful strings of silk. Only one of the woofs are gold or silver (called Golabatoon).
Among traditional fabrics that has been woven in Iran for hundreds of years, brocades are the most valuable alongside handmade velvet weaving.
Examples of this fabric are now kept in the most famous museums around the world. In the recent years some of the artists in this field have tried to resuscitate this art with very high standards. Now with the original traditional making process that was practiced 400 years ago, these beautiful fabrics are being made to order.