TERMINE PREFERITO
Carpet
DEFINIZIONE
- n. A thick and heavy fabric made from wool mainly, or cotton, silk, jute or manufractured fibres, with or without pile surface. Some examples are also from animal hair or skins. Used to cover floors partially, beds or tables generally. The terms rug and carpet are commonly used equally, but carpet is generally understood for knotted carpets covering the entire floor installed wall-to-wall, while rugs are understood as pieces of definite shapes which do not cover the whole floor.
CONCETTO PIÙ GENERALE
- wd:Q163446 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- Weaving techniques
CONCETTI PIÙ SPECIFICI
CONCETTI RELAZIONATI
ALTERNATIVE LABEL
- carpitts
- rug
- tapis
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- 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; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014; Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles. A guide to technical terms. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011
IN ALTRE LINGUE
Tapis noué
francese
Tappeto
italiano
Alfombra
spagnolo
tapete
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/28
CONCETTI PIÙ GENERALI COMPATIBILI
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CONCETTO MOLTO SIMILE
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