Plate No. 106fabric
Metallic filament throws light like beaten metal.
- First documented
- Antiquity
- Origin
- Mediterranean and Asia
- Fiber
- metallic, silk, polyester
- Weave
- woven with metallic filament
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 106 · fabric
Lame
Lame is cloth woven with metallic yarn, threads of real or imitation gold and silver flattened and wound onto a fiber core, so the surface glints like beaten metal. Its ancestor is cloth of gold, the literal gold-thread fabric of antiquity and the medieval church, worn by emperors and laid over altars and the coffins of kings; the 1520 summit of Henry VIII and Francis I was named the Field of the Cloth of Gold for the tents pitched in it. Modern lame swaps the bullion for aluminized polyester, but the job is unchanged: to throw light like metal.
Named for
From the French lame, a thin plate or leaf of metal: the cloth is woven with flattened metal thread.
In the record
- 1520The Field of the Cloth of Gold summit took its name from the gold-woven tents and dress.
Sources & References
- 1.Lame (fabric), Wikipedia
- 2.Cloth of gold, Wikipedia