PREFERRED TERM
Anacosta
DEFINITION
- n. The term anacosta derives from the place it, supposedly, was originally made, Hondschoote, in The Netherlands. It consists of a high-quality and all-worsted dress fabric with a short nap. The weave is two up & two down twill with approximately twice as many picks as ends. Appart from The Netherlands it was also made in Great Britain and in France.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- anacaste; anacosa; anacostia; anacote; french merino
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Wilson, Janet. Classic and Modern Fabrics: The Complete Illustrated Sourcebook. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2010
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Anacoste (tissu)
French
Anacoste
Italian
Anascote
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/36
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