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Twill

Scope note

Woven textile, the structure of which is based on a unit of three or more ends and three or more picks, in which each end passes over two or more adjacent picks and under the next one or more, or under two or more adjacent picks and over the next one or more; the binding points are set over by one end on successive picks, and form diagonal lines. WRPWFT

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000227915

Created

13yrs ago

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