• n. From the Middle English "harnais" "hernis" and the Old French "harneis". The apparatus, that is, the shafts and leashes, that perform one function in the weaving process of a textile. It also refers to the total amount of shatfs in a loom.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300247544 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• CIETA. vocabulario Técnico Tejidos Español, francés, inglés, italiano. Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1963; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.

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