PREFERRED TERM
Moiré (fabric)
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "moire", borrowed to English. It refers to those fabrics in which a ripple or watered finishing process has been produced by pressing or applying heat to flatten parts of the ribs and leave the rest in relief, in order to make them reflect the light differently.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- watered
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]; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Moire (tissu)
French
Marezzato (tessuto)
Italian
Muaré (tejido)
Spanish
mué
moaré
muer
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/347
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