In a message dated 28/03/2007 14:47:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I need reactions from a sampling of avid readers of textile literature, >and where better to find it than here? > >I'm editing a paper on textile analysis written by someone whose native >language is not English. Some of the terms and idioms have come through a >bit odd, and part of my job is to smooth it out so as not to jar the >reader. > >The author is listing characteristics of fabric, including its appearance, >handle, and properties. Obviously "handle" is the word that doesn't ring >true here. My co-editor pencilled in "feel." The fabric-user in me thinks >"hand", but perhaps that is not so well-understood a term. > >If you read either of these phrases in an article, would it pull you up >short, or would it make sense to you? > >"...the properties, hand, and appearance of a finished fabric." > >"...the properties, feel, and appearance of a finished fabric." > >Other suggestions welcome. I don't think "texture" will work in context, >because that turns out to be one of many factors in the "handle." > >--Robin >I need reactions from a sampling of avid readers of textile literature, >and where better to find it than here? > >I'm editing a paper on textile analysis written by someone whose native >language is not English. Some of the terms and idioms have come through a >bit odd, and part of my job is to smooth it out so as not to jar the >reader. > >The author is listing characteristics of fabric, including its appearance, >handle, and properties. Obviously "handle" is the word that doesn't ring >true here. My co-editor pencilled in "feel." The fabric-user in me thinks >"hand", but perhaps that is not so well-understood a term. > >If you read either of these phrases in an article, would it pull you up >short, or would it make sense to you? > >"...the properties, hand, and appearance of a finished fabric." > >"...the properties, feel, and appearance of a finished fabric." > >Other suggestions welcome. I don't think "texture" will work in context, >because that turns out to be one of many factors in the "handle." > >--Robin the first one. I was going to suggest hand anyway as the meaning - because it's a more specifically fabric term to mean the drape, feel, hang, etc of the cloth, ie the way it handles. feel wouldn't make sense to me in a fabric sense. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
