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PREFERRED TERM
Selvage cord  
DEFINITION
  • The selvage cord is the end, usually a heavy cord or group of warp ends which work together, at the side edges of a textile, around which the picks turn before passing back across the fabric.
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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.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Cordeline

French

Cordellina

Italian

stringa
spighetta
Cordelina

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/264
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