PREFERRED TERM
Shot
DEFINITION
- A term used as a noun or adjective to refer to a silken or other textile in which the warp and the weft are of different colours, producing different tones owing to the reflection of light.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Shot cloth
- Tornasol muslin
- Warp (yarn)
- wd:Q7502422 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- Weft
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; 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
Changeant (attibut)
French
Cangiante
Italian
Tornasolado
Spanish
batido
tornasol
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/465
CLOSELY MATCHING CONCEPTS
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RELATED MATCHING CONCEPTS
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