PREFERRED TERM
Organzine
DEFINITION
- n. It is, probably, a borrowing from the French "organsin". It is a type of strong thick yarn, made of single two or more threads twisted together, and the, twisted again but in the opposite direction of the twist of the individual poil yarns.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Hard silk
- Irish poplin
- Marabou
- Poplin
- Radames
- Silk bombyx mori
- Silk cloth
- Surah
- thesaurus:555 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- Thrown silk
- Twist
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; 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
Organsin (fil)
French
Organzino (filo)
Italian
orsoio
Hilo de organzí
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/276
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