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Lampas  
DEFINITION
  • n. The term "lampas" overlaps the definitions of other weaves, depending on the pattern. But, generally the term is used for a figured compound weave, to produce luxurious figured silks, in which a pattern, composed of weft floats bound by a binding warp, is added to a ground weave formed by a main warp and a main weft. It is understood also as a combination of two structures formed from plain weave, twill and/or satin bindings. Lampas juxtaposes two faces created with these structures. It has been developed in Syria and Iraq and notably in Spain.
BROADER CONCEPT
NARROWER CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • diasper
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010. Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Lampas (tissu)

French

Lampasso

Italian

Lampás

Spanish

lampazo
paño de lampazo
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