PREFERRED TERM
Pile-on-pile velvet
DEFINITION
- A type of velvet in which the pattern is achieved by weaving the pile, independently if cut or uncut, in two or more heights.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- pile on pile
- pile on pile velvet
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, 2014.; Wilson, Janet. Classic and Modern Fabrics: The Complete Illustrated Sourcebook. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2010.
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Velours relevé (armure)
French
Velluto a due - tre altezze
Italian
velluto alto e basso
Terciopelo de dos o más altos
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/458
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