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PREFERRED TERM
Thread count  
DEFINITION
  • It refers to the number of warp ends or picks per unit of messure, for example the warp count, the weft count or the knot count. It is indicated by enumerating first the number of warp ends and the the number of filling picks (weft) per inch.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. vocabulario Técnico Tejidos Español, francés, inglés, italiano. Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1963; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
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proporción de trama
proporción de urdimbre
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/166
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