PREFERRED TERM
Floss (yarn)
DEFINITION
- n. Possibly an adoption of the Old French form "flosche". It refers to a silk thread that has not been twisted, used for embroidery.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Miller, Leslie. Selling Silks. A Merchant´s Sample Book 1764. London: V & A Publishing, 2014.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Soie floche
French
Seta floscia
Italian
Seda floja
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/371
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