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PREFERRED TERM
Alepine  
DEFINITION
  • n. The term refers to its origin, Aleppo, from the 16th century. Originally in black colour (after in all colours), it is a fine and twilled cloth with soft-spun silk warp and fine, worsted filling. It is made up from a mixture of wool and silk or mohair and cotton. When used as a countable noun, it refers to a piece of this fabric. The term has other uses as a fabric made in England in the 18th century or a French fabric with silk and cotton.
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • alapeen; alapine; aleppine
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Alépine (tissu)

French

Aleppina

Italian

Alepín

Spanish

alepín de plata
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/25
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