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Damask (Arabic: دمسق) is a reversible figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibres, with a pattern formed by weaving. Damasks are woven with one warp yarn and one weft yarn, usually with the pattern in warp-faced satin weave and the ground in weft-faced or sateen weave. Twill damasks include a twill-woven ground or pattern.
Damasks used one of the five basic weaving techniques of the Byzantine and Islamic weaving centres of the early Middle Ages, and derive their name from the city of Damascus, which at the time was a large city active in both trading, as part of the silk road, and manufacture. Damasks were scarce after the ninth century outside of Islamic Spain, but were revived in some places in the thirteenth century. The word "damask" is first seen in a Western European language in the mid-14th century in French. By the fourteenth century, damasks were being woven on draw looms in Italy. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, most damasks were woven in a single colour, with a glossy warp-faced satin pattern against a duller ground. Two-colour damasks had contrasting colour warps and wefts, and polychrome damasks added gold and other metallic threads or additional colours as supplemental brocading wefts. Medieval damasks were usually woven in silk, but wool and linen damasks were also woven.
On the inside...
My deepest thoughts, my highest high
Were part of you like sun and sky
My darkest hour, my closest friend
You gave me power to reach the end
Love will come, hold you again
Love will come, wipe away the pain
Hear my heart, call out your name
Driven worlds apart, picture in a frame
On the inside...
The sweetest dream, the coldest tear
Still haunt the room like you were here
A ghost of love, a ghost of hate
The heart forgives, the mind can't wait
Love will come, call out your name
Love will come, hold you again
Hear my heart, call out your name
Driven worlds apart, picture in a frame
Love will come, call out your name
Love will come, I hold you again
Hear my heart, call out your name