PREFERRED TERM
Sericin
DEFINITION
- n. A borrowing from the Latin "sēricum" within an English suffix "-in". It is the gummy or gelatinous substance, consisting in a mixture of proteins, deposited on the outside of the silk filament by the silkworm, that is, it binds the central filaments of raw silk. It constitutes about 25 per cent of the bave.
BROADER CONCEPT
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300206575 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- gum sericin
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grès
French
Séricine
Sericina
Italian
Sericina
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/376
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