PREFERRED TERM
Crepe marocain
DEFINITION
- n. A type of heavy crepe dress fabric. Tabby woven, it is made from silk and/or rayon warp and it may have acotton crepe twist weft (filling). It simulates canton crepe in texture.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; 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 marocain (tissu)
French
Crespo marocchino
Italian
Crespón marroquí
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/162
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