PREFERRED TERM
Rib
DEFINITION
- n. A straight and raised cord or ridge, longitudinal, horizontal or oblique extended across the length or width surface by the interplay of ends and picks of a fabric. It is produced in knitted fabrics by the use of the rib stitch.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
- rib knit
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Côte
French
Costa
Italian
Bordón
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/405
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