The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a gold- embroidered velvet bag.
In later banners the monogram was sometimes embroidered on the cloth.
She stared at the embroidered tablecloth, tormented by the scent of food she couldn't eat and the visions of death and betrayal that left an acrid taste in her mouth.
The material is always of kashida, a kind of embroidered cloth.
This plain diaphanous garment, without distinction of colour (white, red or yellow), and with perhaps only an embroidered hem at the top, was worn by the whole nation, princess and peasant, from the IVth to the XVIIIth Dynasties (Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, p. 212).
