Crêpe

Crêpe

Ø Crêpe

Crêpe, also spelt crepe or crape (from the Fr. crêpe), is a silk, wool, or man-made fiber material with a distinctively crisp, crimped look. The term crape generally refers to a kind of the material associated specifically with mourning. Crêpe is additionally traditionally known as crespe or crisp

Ø Types

Aerophane:Crimped silk gauze with a crêpe texture.

A historic 19th century lightweight crêpe, introduced in 1820, and, as crepe aerophane in 1861.

Albert crêpe:A superior-quality black silk mourning crêpe used since 1862.

Plain-weave crêpe.An English-made silk and cotton blend crêpe.

Alicienne: A furnishing fabric with alternating plain weave and crêpe stripes.

Alpaca crêpe: fabric and acetate mix crêpe with a woollen texture, not essentially made from alpaca yarn.

Altesse: A British plain-weave silk material with crêpe filling.

Arabian:A British-made plain-weave cloth with figured crêpe designs

Piece-dyed silk crêpe embroidered with dots.

Armure See Georgian crêpe.

Balanced crêpe: Crêpe woven  with alternating S and Z twist yarns in each directions.

Balmoral crape: An 1895 English crape.

Balzerine: Associate in Nursing 1889 narrow-striped silk sirup overlaid with wider crêpe stripes. An earlier decade cotton/worsted material, spelled balzarine, is probably not crêpe.

Bark (or tree-bark) crêpe: A broad term describing rough crêpes with a bark texture.

Bauté fabric: Warp-woven satin with an obvious crêpe reverse.

Borada crape: a less expensive, economical version of mourning crape publicized  in c.1887.

Bologna crêpe: Silk crêpe used for mourning, conjointly called valle Equador laurel.

Canton crêpe: A soft silk crêpe with a pebbly surface originally associated with Canton in China, with bias ribs. Made in United Kingdom, however exported to China, thence its name.

Caustic soda crêpe: Cotton treated chemically to make a crêpe-like texture, often in patterns.

Chiffon crêpe: Chiffon-weight crêpe

Ø Types (E to L)

'ele'ele kanikau: Black mourning crêpe worn in Hawaii.

Epingline: Textile in silk, rayon or worsted with a crêpe surface.

Esmeralda or étendelle: Sheer white crêpe or gauze in style within the early nineteenth century, often embroidered.

Flat crêpe: conjointly known as mock crepe or (inaccurately) French crepe. A smooth, flat plain-weave material, typically a silk blend, with hard-twisted yarns and ordinary yarn warp. Also wont to describe an identical material created while not crepe-twist yarns.

French crêpe: Inaccurately applied to flat crêpe.

Plain-weave lightweight silk or fabric cloths kind of like flat crêpe.

A intimate apparel weight material with standard yarn warp and a twisted filling yarn that's less twisted than typical crepe twist.

Gamsa: An imitation satin-backed crêpe in twill weave rayon

Ø Types (M to Y)

Marana: Woollen crepe, very resilient and drapable.

Mock crêpe: See flat crêpe

Momie crêpe: Light cotton fabric.

Moss crepe: See sand crepe

Norwich crêpe or crape:

19th century silk warp and worsted, resembling a non-twill bombazine but not considered true crêpe.

17th century black-dyed worsted crêpe made in England.

A georgette-like silk and cotton mix material during a crêpe weave.

Pekin crêpe: Pekin (shiny and matte striped textile) woven with a crêpe weft.

Plissé: principally cotton material with a crêpe impact created by with chemicals treating the material to pucker and crinkle, generally in stripes. Plissé satin is made using crêpe yarns.

Ø See also

Crêpe paper, paper with similar texture

Ø References

Online Etymology Dictionary

Dictionary.com

Taylor, pp. 246-253

Tortora & Johnson, p. 6

Lewandowski, p.6

Lewandowski, p.77