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Weaving > Interfunctional elements > Pick (technique)
PREFERRED TERM
Pick (technique)  
DEFINITION
  • n. A term formed within English, by conversion. Every single passage of the shuttle, i.e., every throw of the shuttle, carrying one or more weft threads through the shed.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • shoot
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]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Duite

French

coup de trame
coup
Passata

Italian

Pasada

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/436
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