PREFERRED TERM
Chiné a la branche
DEFINITION
- A well-know French dress silks, from 18th century. It has a polychrome pattern resist-dyed on the warp before weaving begins. The warp ends are always handled in branches.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chiné à la branche (technique)
French
Chiné à la branche
Italian
Chiné a la rama
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/144
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