PREFERRED TERM
Poil (yarn)
DEFINITION
- n. A term borrowed from the French "poil". It is a silk yarn formed by throwing grège yarn. The twist may either be very slight or exceed 3000 per metre. In English (in England) the term "singles" is used also, but its used is not recommended by CIETA.
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; 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
Poil (fil)
French
pelo (filo)
Italian
Pelo (hilo)
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/360
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