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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2014-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silk (Textiles)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
DEF

Crossing of the thread with itself to dissipate water and to assist cohesion of baves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soieries
  • Filature (Textiles)
CONT

Le fil passe sur un appareil croiseur, où il s'entrecroise [...] avec un fil parallèle ou avec une portion de lui-même [...] cette croisure fait adhérer les brins.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silk (Textiles)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
DEF

Crossing of the thread with itself to dissipate water and to assist cohesion of baves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soieries
  • Filature (Textiles)
CONT

On procède à la croisure, en croisant [...] le même fil sur lui-même (croisure à la tavelette) [...] cette opération a pour objet d'arrondir et de lisser le fil produit.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silk (Textiles)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
DEF

Crossing of the thread with itself to dissipate water and to assist cohesion of baves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soieries
  • Filature (Textiles)
CONT

On procède à la croisure, en croisant fortement 2 groupes de fils provenant de 2 bassines voisines croisure à la Chambon) [...] cette opération a pour objet d'arrondir et de lisser le fil produit.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fabric Nomenclature
DEF

... a linen fabric(or an inferior fabric of union or cotton) woven with a small and simple pattern, formed by the different directions of the thread,... and consisting of lines crossing diamond-wise, with the spaces variously filled up by parallel lines, a central leaf or dot, etc.

OBS

In earlier times, ... the [term "diaper"] was applied to a richer and more costly fabric, apparently of silk, woven or flowered over the surface with gold thread.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Nomenclature des tissus
DEF

Au Moyen Age, étoffe précieuse qui servait à la confection des ornements d'église et à celle des vêtements de cour. (Les diapres venaient d'Antioche. Il semble qu'ils aient été ornés de motifs (fleurs, oiseaux, soleils) en lame d'or.)

OBS

diaspre : Ancien français.

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lace and Lacework (Textiles)
CONT

When two pairs of adjacent pairs are to be joined, this is done by crossing the two inside threads, the thread on the left going over the thread on the right,...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentelles, tulles et guipures (Textiles)
CONT

Pour croiser, on passe le fuseau intérieur de la paire de gauche par dessus le fuseau intérieur de la paire de droite.

Spanish

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Record 6 1996-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Knitted and Stretch Fabrics
  • Knitting Techniques - Various
DEF

A loop in which a thread enters and leaves the loop at opposite sides without crossing over itself.

OBS

The same applies to an open stitch.

OBS

The term "open lap" refers to the movement of the guide bar when an open loop is produced in a warp-knitted fabric.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tricot et tissus extensibles
  • Techniques de tricot diverses
DEF

Maille dans laquelle le même fil entre dans la maille et sort de la maille, sans qu'il y ait croisement du fil sur lui-même.

OBS

Ce terme s'applique aussi bien à une maille qu'à une boucle de maille.

OBS

Le terme «jeté ouvert» se réfère aux mouvements de translation de la barre à passettes qui correspondent à la formation d'une maille ouverte dans un tricot chaîne.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Decorative Arts
  • Fabric Nomenclature
DEF

Having the surface or ground diversified and adorned with a diaper of fret-work pattern.

OBS

"diaper"(noun) : The name of a textile fabric; now, and since the 15th century, applied to a linen fabric(or an inferior fabric of union or cotton) woven with a small and simple pattern,... consisting of lines crossing diamond-wise, with the spaces variously filled up by parallel lines, a central leaf or dot, etc. [NB :] In earlier times,... the name was applied to a richer and more costly fabric, apparently of silk, woven or flowered over the surface with gold thread. ["Diaper" also applies to] A pattern or design of the same kind, or more florid, in colour, gilding, or low relief, used to decorate a flat surface, as a panel, wall, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts décoratifs divers
  • Nomenclature des tissus
DEF

"être diapré" : en parlant de toute surface, d'un tissu comme d'un métal ou d'une céramique, être ornée de figures, de rinceaux, d'ornements de diverses couleurs.

OBS

"diapre" (nom masc.) : Au Moyen Age, étoffe précieuse qui servait à la confection des ornements d'église et à celle des vêtements de cour. (Les diapres venaient d'Antioche. Il semble qu'ils aient été ornés de motifs (fleurs, oiseaux, soleils) en lame d'or.)

Spanish

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Record 8 1982-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Switchgear (Rail Transport)
OBS

FIST A rail designed to prevent a worn wheel tread from striking the head of a running rail of a frog or crossing. The easer rail is so machined that its head, fits against the outside of the head of the running rail and is so bent as to gradually lift a worn wheel thread to the elevation of the top of the running rail so that it may pass over this rail.(MOWA 21, 129).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de voie (Transport par rail)
OBS

VOC. Champagne p. 20.

Spanish

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