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PREFERRED TERM
Sericin  
DEFINITION
  • n. A borrowing from the Latin "sēricum" within an English suffix "-in". It is the gummy or gelatinous substance, consisting in a mixture of proteins, deposited on the outside of the silk filament by the silkworm, that is, it binds the central filaments of raw silk. It constitutes about 25 per cent of the bave.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • gum sericin
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grès

French

Séricine
Sericina

Italian

Sericina

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/376
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