PREFERRED TERM
Pekin
DEFINITION
- n. A borrowing from the French "Pékin". From previous forms as "pékin" or "pequin". It refers to a warp-striped fabric or textile made employing different binding systems and using various fibres including silk, rayon, worsted, cotton or combinations of these fibres. Original from China.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. 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.
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IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Pékin (tissu)
French
Pechino
Italian
Pequín
Spanish
pequinés
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/361
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