Atlas (Arabic, literally - smooth) is a dense silk or semi-silk fabric [1] of satin weave with a smooth shiny front surface. With satin weaving, the weft goes to the front surface through five or more warp threads. This achieves a special smoothness of the fabric. Atlases can be both smooth and patterned.
The atlas is used for sewing clothes (for example, tuxedos ) and shoes (including pointe shoes ), finishing festive church vestments, making draperies, upholstery, making flags, and more.
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5/2 Satin Weave Pattern
17th Century Satin Fabric with Calligraphic Inscription from the Brooklyn Museum Collection
Satin pointe shoes of Galina Ulanova for the role of Juliet from S. S. Prokofiev ’s ballet “ Romeo and Juliet ” (1958) from the Bolshoi Theater Museum
See also
- Satin
Notes
- ↑ Atlas, fabric // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Atlas - Brief Encyclopedia of Household / Ed. I. M. Skvortsov et al. - M.: State Scientific Publishing House "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" - 1959.
- Kirsanova R.M. Atlas // Pink Xandrayka and Grandfather's Scarf: Costume - a thing and an image in Russian literature of the 19th century. - M .: Book, 1989. - S. 29. - ISBN 5-212-00130-7 .
Links
- Atlas (fabric) // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.