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PREFERRED TERM
Construction  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Latin "constructiōn-em". It is the way that the weave is made. How the weave or combination of weaves of a textile is composed.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
  • structure
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]
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URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/410
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