PREFERRED TERM
Loom
DEFINITION
- n. From the Middle English "lome" aphetic representing Old English "gelóma". A machine or device that facilitates weaving and produces fabric, in which yarn or thread is woven into fabric by the crossing of threads called respectively the warp and weft. Looms, in many formats, hold the warp either vertically or horozontally and can simple or complex elements to adi the weaving process.
BROADER CONCEPT
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300247544 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
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- Reed
- wd:Q173056 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- 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. Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Métier à tisser
French
Telaio
Italian
Telar
Spanish
URI
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