taffeta

• Silk taffeta is a light-to-medium weight plain weave that uses heavier weft yarns with a fine warp yarn.
• You spend the whole clip swimming in a sea of silk and taffeta, and I'm not getting it. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• The semi-tailored dress of dark blue taffeta, the sheer white collar, the small black hat with its white wings, the silver coin purse in the gloved hand--no detail escaped the keen eyes of the child. —  Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
• 65 Page 49] CANNELE and REPP WEAVES are in their construction related to the taffeta, and are used mostly in the form of stripes as an additional ornament to a fabric. —  Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics
• In combining these weaves it is advantageous to have them contrast distinctly, for instance, a short weave such as taffeta or Gros de Tours, with a longer and looser one such as satin, sergé or cannele, also changes from warp to filling effects. —  Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics

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