Usually, uwamon is woven with enuki (threads only used for making patterns and irrelevant to keii [the warp and the weft] for weaving a fabric) on the jimon of ukiorimono, a fabric with raised patterns that are woven by raising the weft like embroidery thread.
普通は、横糸を刺繍糸のように浮かせた浮織物の地紋に、絵緯（えぬき。織の組織に必要な経緯《たてよこ糸》とは無関係な、紋をあらわすだけに使う色糸）を使って上紋を浮織にする。