PREFERRED TERM
Décochement
DEFINITION
- adj. From the French "décocher". A way or method of recording the bindings of a weave. It is the record of the number warp threads between the adjacent bindings points on succesive picks. The déchochement number is always one more than the interrumption number. It is counted from the lower left to the upper right on the weft face of the textile, and from the lower right to the upper left on the warp face.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Roberts A., Edward. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words Based on Indo-European Roots. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2014; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Van Raemdonck, M. The Ottoman Silk Textiles of the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Décochement
French
Scoccamento
Italian
diffalcamento
Escalonado
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/424
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