PREFERRED TERM
Wool
DEFINITION
- n. By wool we mean the covering coat of the domesticated sheep, that can also be known as fleece. The coat is removed from the animal, cleaned up and processed to produce a fibre to be woven. We can find different types of wool, like the Merino, which comes from a specific breed of sheep and the lambwool, which comes from lambs. There exists also wool from camelides.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
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; Will Manley, Katharine Foot, and Andrew Davis. A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management. Oxford University Press, 2019.
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Laine
French
Lana
Italian
Lana
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/644
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