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Weaving > Weaving techniques > Satin de Lyon
PREFERRED TERM
Satin de Lyon  
DEFINITION
  • As serving as trade names for certain textile fabrics, this type of satin takes its name from the city of Lyon. It is a silk satin made with a twilled back and finely striped face, used mainly for lining.
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RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • lyon satin
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Kolanjikombil, Mathews. Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Textile Terms. [Place of publication not identified] WOODHEAD Publishing INDIA, 2018
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Satin de Lyon

French

Raso di Lione

Italian

Raso de Lyon

Spanish

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http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/539
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