Gauze
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A short encyclopedia entry defining gauze as a light, transparent, openly woven fabric, originally silk and later linen or cotton. It gives the supposed origin of the name at Gaza, describes how the warp threads are twisted in pairs between wefts, and notes the related leno fabric. It also mentions the 18th-century silk gauze industry in western Scotland and uses such as flour bolting and wire gauze.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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