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A sheer fabric of silk or cotton, woven to have a slightly ribbed, crepe-like effect..
This is strengthened by a layer of crepoline, a transparent cloth, on both sides of the piece of paper.
In garments a wool or half-wool fabric is frequently trimmed with silk, or a wool and silk fabric (gloria) has a cotton lining or cotton stitching. Such wool and silk mixtures find very wide use in dress fabrics, usually with a silk warp and a wool weft (poplin, bengaline, santoy, crepolines, etc.).
The crepoline sandwich was sewn onto a silk mounting, dyed to match the original silk, so the tattered edge is hardly noticeable.
Use crepoline when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Crepoline means A sheer fabric of silk or cotton, woven to have a slightly ribbed, crepe-like effect..
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This is strengthened by a layer of crepoline, a transparent cloth, on both sides of the piece of paper.
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