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PREFERRED TERM
Shuttle  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Old English "scytel" "sciutil" "scytel" and the Middle English "shittle" "shotil" "shetil" "schytle" among others. It is the instrument or tool or device by which the weft is passed through the shed opening in the warp in the weaving process. It comes in different shapes, as a boat, carpet, fly shuttle, among others.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Navette

French

Navetta

Italian

Lanzadera

Spanish

naveta
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/311
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