BROCADE OF COTTON. The word brocade is employed as a conventional trade term to describe a wide range especially of cotton fabrics of simple structure and consisting of one series each of warp and weft threads, as distinct from compound struc tures with two or more of each series of those threads. Originally, however, the term "brocade" applied more particularly to fabrics produced from silk and sometimes richly embellished with fig uring of gold and silver threads that were "broched," "pricked" or "stitched" into the woven fabric in order to develop a raised or embossed pattern, in the style of embroidery. (See