skip to main content

SILKNOW

Content language

PREFERRED TERM
Camocas  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "camocas" and the Persian "kamẖā". It refers to a luxurious silk fabric, tamed, fine and shiny, sometimes woven with gold thread, sometimes decorated with birds and geometric drawings, which was used from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century for dressings of talar and covered with luxurious beds.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Nash, Susie. “The Parement De Narbonne: Context and Technique.” The Fabric of Images, Ed C. Villers, 2000
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Camocas (tissu)

French

Kamocas
Cambocas
Camocat
Camocan
Quamocas
Camocas

Italian

Camocán

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/124
Download this concept:
We're open to collaboration, feel free to send us your suggestions to info@silknow.eu