• n. Ottoman, a term from early 19th century from French ottomane, is a type of ribbed silk (a cannelé) with ribs of unequal width on both face and reverse. There are needed two warps, a flushing warp for the floats and a warp for the ground layer.

• Weaving techniques

• Cannele

• CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010. Campbell, Gordon. The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Oxford University Press, 2006.

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