PREFERRED TERM
Lampassette
DEFINITION
- A type of damask, or a modified lampas made with a twill ground and brocaded filling figures. It employs a single colour cotton warp and several colours of silk filling. That is, one or more weft threads, working together, form the ground and pattern motifs. Those motifs are formed by floats bound in weave in which the ends interlace in groups of two or three.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- lampasette
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Lampassette (tssu)
French
Lampassette
Italian
lampassino
Lampasete
Spanish
lampaset
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/309
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