PREFERRED TERM
Chiné (yarn)
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "chiner" that comes from "Chine", meaning China. It refers to a thread printed or dyed in diverse colours.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chiné (fil)
French
Filo chiné
Italian
bisso
Hilo chiné
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/255
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