PREFERRED TERM
Lozenge twill
DEFINITION
- From the French "losenge" "losange" and the Middle English "losenge" "losinge" among others. It denotes any form of twill whose diagonal direction is formed by the binding points is reversed over groups of ends, and also over groups of picks, to produce lozenges.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- losange twill
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Losange (armure)
French
Diamantina
Italian
Losange
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/496
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