Weaving Li Minority "Brocade": travel notes - Chris Buckley

A design on a cloth is for the tourist market, rather gaudy and with large, widely spaced designs (for ease and speed of production I expect), but Chris thinks that the basic technique is the same used to make most Li minority supplementary weft weavings. Note in areas which are left without design the weft underneath tends to show through (see green threads in this design), which is somewhat inelegant, and may explain why good, old Li weavings tend to have very dense designs without much "ground" visible.