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PREFERRED TERM
Plain  
DEFINITION
  • A kind of textile non weaved with a consistent and repeated pattern, with no variation. It is opposite to a figured weave.
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • plain fabric
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. Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Tissu uni (attribut)

French

Unito

Italian

liscio
Liso

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/321
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