PREFERRED TERM
Spun silk
DEFINITION
- n. A cheap material, which is obtained from silk waste. The yarn is made up from short lenghts silk and it could be of two grades, which are Schappe or Bourrette Yarn. A special machine is needed to spun it.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- Bourrette
- Dupion
- Spun silk fabric
- wd:Q63854053 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
ENTRY TERMS
- coarse silk
- waste silk
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Blaze
French
Strasse
Bavella
Italian
spelaia
Adúcar (fibra)
Spanish
alducar
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/12
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