According to a literature of early Muromachi period, the pattern was the Kiri, take, hoo mon (the design of paulownia, bamboo and phoenix), which was the same as Korozen no goho (a cloth that an emperor put on when he or she performed an important ritual), and the pattern was first weaved and then dyed.
室町時代初期の書によると、文様は黄櫨染御袍と同様の桐竹鳳凰文であり、文様を織ってから後染めした。