PREFERRED TERM
Interruption
DEFINITION
- n. From the Latin "interruptiōn-em". A noun from the action of "interrupĕre". In satin weaves, it refers to the number of ends between the adjacent binding points of successive picks. In regular satins, the interrumption is constant, on the contrary, in irregular satins it is variable.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Interruption
French
Interruzione
Italian
Intervalo
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/493
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