Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads. - see Wikipedia for more detail.

This will become a voluminous cowl, even though I didn’t start with a provisional cast on.

Used 3 needle bind off. Not 100% happy with the edge, because I didn’t have live stitches at the cast on side which created 3 stickinette rows on the WS. Be that as it may: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!