PREFERRED TERM
Batiste
DEFINITION
- n. In French "batiste". In origin it was a soft sheer linen fabric. It got its name from Jean Baptiste (13th century) who started making it. In At 19th century it started to be produced from cotton, as a plain weave (tabby) fabric. Nowadays it is made up from both cotton and other manufactured fibres as polyester.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- batiste de soie
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Batiste (tissu)
French
Batista di seta
Italian
Batista de seda
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/67
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