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PREFERRED TERM
Brocading shuttle  
DEFINITION
  • n. Little shuttle used to insert weft threads, producing decorations, in between the warp threads.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; «Real Academia Española» Accedido 21-11-2019; Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Espolin

French

Espoulin
Spolino (oggetto)

Italian

EspolÍn (objeto)

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/190
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