• n. From the Old French "conte" Middle English "counte" "cownte" "cownt" among other forms. It expresses the thread size, relating length and weight.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300163707 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• Denier

• Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.

http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/483