• n. From the French "faille" . It refers to a type of ribbed silk fabric that is light. It has the same width on face and reverse.

• Weaving techniques

• Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 [www.oed.com] Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015

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