PREFERRED TERM
Marquisette
DEFINITION
- n. A term borrowed from the French "marquisette". It refers to a light leno or doup weave, gauze fabric. It could be made of carded or combed cotton, silk or manufactured fibres.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Cotton
- Gauze (technique)
- wd:Q1356191 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972.; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Montgomery, Florence. Textiles in America, 1650-1870. New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984. 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
Marquisette (tissu)
French
Marchesetta
Italian
Marquiseta
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/337
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