At 06:21 PM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
In a message dated 7/12/2005 9:12:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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It has a short answer to the question - difference between brocade &
damask??
My short answer is a brocade has a raised pattern and a damask doesn't.
A brocade is a patterned fabric woven with a supplementary weft; if
you remove the pattern threads the ground fabric is still intact.
Damask is more complex to define. According to Sharon Alderman's
"Mastering Weave Structures", 'Damask is a cloth having satin and
sateen areas on the same face' (page 69). Satin is warp-faced, with
almost no weft showing; sateen is the opposite, weft-faced with
almost no warp showing. No supplementary weft is used. The basic
weaves are complex twills with 5 or more shafts.
Joan Jurancich
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