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PREFERRED TERM
Grenadine (fabric)  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "grenadine" and from the name of the Spanish city Granada. A type of silk yarn which is made by doubling two or more ends of poil with the twist opposite to that poil ends' direction. It is a yarn tightly twisted.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grenadine (fil)

French

Filo granatina

Italian

Hilo granadina

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/249
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