TERME PRÉFÉRENTIEL
Sericin
DÉFINITION
- n. A borrowing from the Latin "sēricum" within an English suffix "-in". It is the gummy or gelatinous substance, consisting in a mixture of proteins, deposited on the outside of the silk filament by the silkworm, that is, it binds the central filaments of raw silk. It constitutes about 25 per cent of the bave.
CONCEPT GÉNÉRIQUE
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300206575 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
CONCEPTS ASSOCIÉS
VARIANTE
- gum sericin
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
TRADUCTIONS
Sericina
espagnol
Grès
français
Séricine
Sericina
italien
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/376
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