Length of silk hand screen-printed in a repeating pattern consisting of various fishes and shells in white, yellow, beige-rose, beige-green, blue, purple blue, and black on a dark gold ground. The design consists of 19 fish (ranging in size from 3-1/4' to 18' long), 7 shells (ranging in size from 1' to 5-1/4' in diameter), and 4 starfish (ranging in size from 4' to 8-1/2' in diameter) laid out in irregular horizontal and vertical rows. The vertical repeat is 22-1/2'; the horizontal repeat runs the full width of the fabric. The panel includes four complete repeats and two partial vertical repeats, and full horizontal repeats. The title of the design, 'A FISH IS A FISH,' and the phrase 'DESIGNED BY KEN SCOTT' is printed twice along the right selvage edge 27-1/2' apart. The ground is a tabby-woven silk with a slight weftwise rib. The warps are very lightly twisted and narrower than the wefts. The wefts are thick, also very lightly twisted and closely packed. Warps per inch: approx. 104-106. Wefts per inch: approx. 48-49.The upper and lower edges are unfinished. Both sides are selvage edges.