• adj. Term used to describe a woven or printed fabric in which one pattern or colour or thread (yarn) is overlaid on another. It describes a shaded effect achieved by using aternating weft threads of different colours or tones. It also meant crossed with lines.

• Weft effect

• CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014.

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