PREFERRED TERM
Floss (thread)
DEFINITION
- n. Probably an adoption of some form of Old French "flosche". It refers to the fine short silk fibres or filaments or waste that could not be reeled.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Bourrette
- Hiladillo (object)
- Irish poplin
- Jusi
- Poplin
- Radames
- Silk cashmere
- Silk gaberdine
- Silk poplin
- Spun silk fabric
- thesaurus:555 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- wd:Q63852445 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
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; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015. 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
Filoselle (Fil)
French
Strusa
Italian
moresca
spelaia
spellaia
Filadiz
Spanish
filadís
esfiladiz
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/216
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