Samite is a luxurious fabric favored by the wealthy.[1]
History
King Aenys I Targaryen wore the finest silks, velvets, and samites.[2]
King Jaehaerys I Targaryen imposed taxes on foreign silk, cloth-of-gold, cloth-of-silver, and samite.[3]
Scarlet samite was among the cargo carried by Treasure.[4]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Salladhor Saan is fond of silk and samite.[5]
Tyrion Lannister finds his sister, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, wearing a samite rob when he visits her chambers in the Red Keep.[6]
The Qartheen wear linen, samite, and tiger fur when Daenerys Targaryen arrives at Qarth.[7] Daenerys wears a Qartheen gown of flowing green samite with one breast bared when she goes before the Pureborn.[8]
King Joffrey I Baratheon wears bright crimson samite when he holds court after the Battle of the Blackwater.[9]
A Storm of Swords
Cersei has a seamstress create for Sansa Stark a gown of ivory samite and cloth-of-silver lined with silvery satin.[10]
Queen Margaery Tyrell changes from a demure gown into samite for her wedding feast.[11]
Daenerys dons her dragon crown and wears a robe of purple samite and a silver sash after her conquest of Meereen.[12]
A Feast for Crows
Princess Arianne Martell wears loose layers of flowing purple silk and yellow samite, and Tyene Sand wears a clinging gown of pale blue samite with sleeves of Myrish lace.[13]
Bolts of shimmering samite are among the gifts presented by Euron Greyjoy to the ironborn during the kingsmoot on Old Wyk.[14]
Petyr Baelish gives all the fine clothing of the late Lysa Arryn to Alayne Stone.[15][16]
A Dance with Dragons
Daenerys, Queen of Meereen, dons a Qartheen gown of violet samite when she meets with Xaro Xhoan Daxos.[17] Reznak mo Reznak has a tokar of maroon samite with golden fringes.[18]
Quotes
Cersei was reclining on a pile of cushions. Her feet were bare, her golden hair artfully tousled, her robe a green-and-gold samite that caught the light of the candles and shimmered as she looked up.[6]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
She was breaking her fast on a bowl of cold shrimp-and-persimmon soup when Irri brought her a Qartheen gown, an airy confection of ivory samite patterned with seed pearls.[19]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Margaery had exchanged the demure gown that she had worn in the sept for one much more revealing, a confection in pale green samite with a tight-laced bodice that bared her shoulders and the tops of her small breasts.[11]
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
In the Seven Kingdoms nobles draped themselves in velvets, silks, and samites of a hundred hues whilst peasants and smallfolk wore raw wool and dull brown roughspun.[1]
—thoughts of Samwell Tarly
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 26, Samwell III.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragons.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, A Time of Testing - The Realm Remade.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 10, Davos I.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 25, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 27, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 40, Daenerys III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 29, The Reaver.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 42, Brienne VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 16, Daenerys III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 43, Daenerys VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 63, Daenerys V.