• n. From the Latin "lāmella". A thin plate, scale, layer, or film, esp. of bone or tissue; e.g. one of the thin scales or plates which compose some shells, one of the gills forming the hymenium of a mushroom, one of the erect scales appended to the corollas of some flowers.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300213346 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• Gilt membrane strip

• Lamé
• Metal thread

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press; Oxford: New York Oxford University Press, 1989.[www.oed.com]; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264092
• materials > metal

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