PREFERRED TERM
Camocas
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "camocas" and the Persian "kamẖā". It refers to a luxurious silk fabric, tamed, fine and shiny, sometimes woven with gold thread, sometimes decorated with birds and geometric drawings, which was used from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century for dressings of talar and covered with luxurious beds.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Nash, Susie. “The Parement De Narbonne: Context and Technique.” The Fabric of Images, Ed C. Villers, 2000
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Camocas (tissu)
French
Quamocas
Cambocas
Kamocas
Camocat
Camocan
Camocas
Italian
Camocán
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/124
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