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PREFERRED TERM
Bobbin  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "bobine". The article or device, mainly a tube of wood paper or any other material, upon which the filling yarn (the weft) is wound. It is set around the spindle shank of the bobbin, and then is set into place in the shuttle.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
  • pirn
  • quill
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; Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015.Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds); The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Canette

French

Cannette
Cannetta (oggetto)

Italian

Canilla

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/127
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