PREFERRED TERM
Bave
DEFINITION
- It denotes the natural silk thread spun by the silkworm when it is making its cocoon. Two twin filaments, called brins, are cemented together by gum sericin, emitted by the silkworm.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- cocoon filament
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Bave
French
Bava
Italian
Baba
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/478
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