PREFERRED TERM
Crepe de Chine
DEFINITION
- A type of sheer silk crepe with tabby structure., made of raw silk, in white or other colours. It is woven with a silk warp and a crepe twist silk filling alternating 2S-2Z. It has a fine crepe effect and it is used in dresses.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. vocabulario Técnico Tejidos Español, francés, inglés, italiano. Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1963. Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com] Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972. Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015. Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Crêpe de Chine (tissu)
French
Crespo di Cina
Italian
Crespón de China
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/158
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