skip to main content

SILKNOW

Langue des données

Weaving > Upholstery > Tapestry
TERME PRÉFÉRENTIEL
Tapestry  
DÉFINITION
  • n. From previous forms as in Middle English "tapstery" "tapestrye" "tapistry" among others. It refers to a A textile fabric decorated with designs of ornament or pictorial subjects, painted, embroidered, or woven in colours, used for wall hangings, curtains, covers for seats, to hang from windows or balconies on festive occasions, etc. It is such a decorated fabric, in which a weft containing ornamental designs in coloured wool or silk, gold or silver thread, etc., is worked with bobbins or broaches, and pressed close with a comb, on a warp of hemp or flax stretched in a frame. Often loosely applied to imitative textile fabrics.
CONCEPT GÉNÉRIQUE
CONCEPTS SPÉCIFIQUES
CONCEPTS ASSOCIÉS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
TRADUCTIONS
Tapiz

espagnol

Tapisserie

français

Arazzo (tecnica)

italien

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/608
Télécharger ce concept :
EQUIVALENCE EXACTE
www.wikidata.org
Nous sommes ouverts à la collaboration, n'hésiter pas à nous envoyer vos suggestions à info@silknow.eu