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PREFERRED TERM
Treadle  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Old English "tredel" "tredyl" "tredylle". It is a part of a loom, a foot pedal which is activated and operated by the weaver to raise or lower one or more shafts in a shaft loom.
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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] Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Marche

French

Pédale
Pedale

Italian

Cárcola

Spanish

calca
cala
premidera
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/648
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