PREFERRED TERM
Tabby (silk weave)
DEFINITION
- n. Late 16th century from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured. The most basic form of binding or weave, composed of one set of warps and one set of wefts in which each end passes over one and under one pick. It is the simplest of weave structures, used commonly all over the world. It can be woven as balanced, warp-faced or weft-faced, with a variety in between. It is sometimes referred as Plain Weave even if it is not recommended. In other languages, for silk fabrics it is called taffetas weave.
BROADER CONCEPT
NARROWER CONCEPTS
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Batiste
- Belolac
- Bengal
- Bengaline
- Brilliantine
- Brocade (fabric)
- Buratine
- Calico
- Calquier
- Cannelé alternatif
- Cannele
- Cannelé simpleté
- Cannetille
- Chaul
- Chiffon
- Colonia
- Crepe de Chine
- Cristaline
- Droguet
- Extended tabby
- Gauffered
- Gauze (fabric)
- Hiladillo (object)
- Lampas
- Marabou
- Mexicaine
- Plain weave fabric
- Pongee
- Poplin
- Segrí
- Self-patterned
- Shot cloth
- Silk camlet
- Silk poplin
- Spun silk fabric
- Tercianela
- Velvet
- Warp rib fabric
- wd:Q10572374 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- wd:Q909391 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- Weft rib fabric
- Zarzahán
ENTRY TERMS
- Cloth Weave
- Plain Cloth
- Plain Cloth Weave
- Plain Weave
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Campbell, Gordon. The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Oxford University Press, 2006; Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Taffetas (armure)
French
Taffettà (armatura)
Italian
taffettano
taffetà
taffetano
Tafetán (ligamento)
Spanish
plana
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/236
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