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PREFERRED TERM
Gauze (technique)  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "gaze" and the Scottish "gais" "gadza", later in English "gawse" "gause" "gauze". A textile in which the binding is achieved by the displacement of warp ends. The doup ends (warp ends) are made to cross over other warp ends called fixed ends. Usually, the fabric with gauze binding is open.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Gaze à tour anglais (tissu)

French

Gaze anglaise
Garza a giro inglese

Italian

Gasa de vuelta

Spanish

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