PREFERRED TERM
Filature (building)
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "filature" and the Latin "fīlātūra" "fīlāre". It is the place, the factory or the establishment for reeling silk.
BROADER CONCEPT
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300004894 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; 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
Filature (édifice)
French
Filanda (edificio)
Italian
Hilatura (edificio)
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/262
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