PREFERRED TERM
Pulley box
DEFINITION
- n. In a drawloom, a box frame suspended over the loom containing the pulleys used to adjust the vertical looped strings. Over those pulleys, the cords run, permitting their extension to the side of the loom.
BROADER CONCEPT
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300247544 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; 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
Cassin
French
Cassino
Italian
Cántara
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/281
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