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PREFERRED TERM
Cannelé des Indes  
DEFINITION
  • n. A type of weave, derived from cannelé simpleté, consistent of an even face only marked by some transverse ribs. With a tabby ground with a main warp and weft the flushing warp floats above it, whose ends float, while the other ends are bound by the weft.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Cannelé des Indes (armure)

French

Cannellato delle Indie

Italian

Acanalado de las Indias

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/7
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