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.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
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
URI
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