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brocatelle
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brocatelle [¦bräk·ə¦tel]
(textiles)
A heavy cross-ribbed fabric that resembles brocade but has jacquard figures in high relief.
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The most well-known example is perhaps that of the so-called brocatel, (117) the production of which grew up in Venice and many Italian and European silk centres during the sixteenth century, (118) but as well as this, other fabrics known as buratti, canevazze, cosacchi, dobloni, ferandine, rasetti, tabi were also produced.
The civilization of fashion: at the origins of a western social ... by Belfanti, Carlo Marco / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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