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Crêpe, also spelled crepe or crape (from the French crêpe),[1] is a silk, wool, or synthetic fiber fabric with a distinctively crisp and crimped appearance. The term "crape" typically refers to a form of the fabric associated specifically with mourning.[2] Crêpe was also historically called "crespe" or "crisp".[3]
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It is woven of hard-spun yarn, originally silk "in the gum" (silk from which the sericin had not been removed). There traditionally have been two distinct varieties of the crêpe: soft, Canton or Oriental crêpe, and hard or crisped crêpe.[4]
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- Aerophane
- 1. A crimped silk gauze with a crêpe texture.
- 2. A historic 19th century lightweight crêpe,[5]: 6 introduced in 1820,[6] and, as "crepe aerophane" in 1861.[7]
- Albert crêpe
- 1. A fine black silk mourning crêpe introduced in 1862.[6]
- 2. Plain-weave crêpe.
- 3. An English-made silk and cotton blend crêpe.[5]: 10
- Alicienne
- A furnishing fabric with alternating plain weave and crêpe stripes.[5]: 14
- Alpaca crêpe
- Rayon and acetate blend crêpe with a woollen texture, not necessarily made of alpaca yarn.[5]: 14
- Altesse
- A British plain-weave silk fabric with crêpe filling.[5]: 14
- Arabian
- 1. A British-made plain-weave cloth with figured crêpe designs.
- 2. Piece-dyed silk crêpe embroidered with dots.[5]: 23
- Armure
- (See Georgian crêpe)
B
- Balanced crêpe
- Crêpe woven with alternating S and Z twist yarns in both directions.[5]: 39
- Balmoral crape
- An 1895 English crape.[8]
- Balzerine
- An 1889 narrow-striped silk grenadine overlaid with wider crêpe stripes. An earlier 1830s cotton/worsted fabric, spelled balzarine, was probably not crêpe.[8]
- Bark (or tree-bark) crêpe
- A broad term describing rough crêpes with a bark texture.[9][10]
- Bauté satin
- Warp-woven satin with a plain crêpe reverse.[11]
- Borada crape
- A cheaper, economical version of mourning crape advertised in 1887.[3]
- Bologna crêpe
- Silk crêpe used for mourning, also known as valle cypre.[12]
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- Canton crêpe
- A soft silk crêpe with a pebbly surface originally associated with Canton in China, with bias ribs. Made in Britain, but exported to China, hence its name.[13]
- Caustic soda crêpe
- Cotton treated with chemicals to create a crêpe-like texture, often in patterns.[14]
- Chiffon crêpe
- Chiffon-weight crêpe.[15]
- Chijimi
- Japanese crêpe.[15]
- Chirimen
- Japanese raw silk crêpe widely used to make kimono.[16][17] When woven with a dot it is mon-chirimen.[18]
- Courtauld crape
- 1890s mourning crape made by Courtaulds. An 1894 variation, called 'Courtauld's new silk crêpe', was exceptionally thin and soft.[7] Courtaulds monopolised the export market for English crapes and crêpes, meaning that the textiles known as "crape anglaise" were almost always manufactured by Courtaulds up until 1940.[3]
- Crêpe Algerian
- A trade name for a printed pongee with a rough crêpe texture.[19]
- Crêpe anglaise
- A French term for English mourning crapes in black and white.[7] The only true 'crape anglais' was considered that made by Courtaulds (see Courtauld crape) which was last made in 1940.[3]
- Crêpe Beatrice
- Trade name for crêpe with a light warp stripe.[19]
- Crêpe berber
- Trade name for a piece-dyed crepe-textured pongee.[20]
- Crêpe charmeuse
- Lightweight silk satin with a grenadine warp and crêpe reverse.[20]
- Crêpe chenette
- A tradename for a strong crêpe with a pebble texture.[20]
- Crêpe crêpe
- Made with extra twists in the warp to create an extra-deep texture.[20]
- Crêpe de chine
- A fine, lightweight silk, cotton, or worsted, with a plain weave and crêpe-twist filling.[20]
- Crêpe de chine travers
- A ribbed crêpe de chine with heavier filling yarns introduced to the weave at regular intervals.[20]
- Crêpe de dante
- Crêpe with silk and wool filling.[20]
- Crêpe de lahor
- Cotton crêpe made in France.[20]
- Crêpe de laine
- A sheer wool fabric plain-woven with hard twist for a slight crêpe effect.[20]
- Crêpe de santé
- An undyed, closely woven, rough-textured wool-blend crêpe mixed with silk, linen, or cotton, also called "health crepe".[20]
- Crêpe de Suisse
- 1860 dress fabric.[7]
- Crêpe d'espagne
- Open-weave fabric with a silk warp and wool filling.[20]
- Crêpe diana
- Trade name for a cotton and silk blend crêpe.[20]
- Crêpe Elizabeth
- English term for a mottled or pebbled georgette.[20]
- Crêpe faille sublime
- Silk grosgrain with a hard-twist filling.[20]
- Crêpe flannel
- Plain-woven worsted with a crêpe finish.[20]
- Crêpe imperial
- Late 19th century woollen crape.[7]
- Crêpe jacquard
- Crepe with designs produced by jacquard weaving.[20]
- Crêpe janigor
- Trade name for a heavy rib textile with alternating rayon and dull acetate warp threads, cross-dyed for varied shades.[20]
- Crêpe jersey
- Vertically ribbed silk crêpe resembling the knit fabric.[20]
- Crêpe lissé (or lease)
- A lightweight, lustrous, slightly stiffened open-weave silk or cotton crêpe, with fewer twists than a crêpe crêpe.[20]
- Crêpela
- French term for a crêpe effect.[20]
- Crepeline
- Very sheer plain-woven silk usually used in textile conservation.[20] Originally introduced in the 1870s as a cheap alternative to crepe de chine.[7]
- Crêpella
- Plain-woven worsted using hard-spun yarn.[20]
- Crêpe maretz
- An 1862 fabric.[7]
- Crêpe marocain
- Heavy, cross-ribbed crêpe where the filling yarn is coarser than the warp, resembling a canton crêpe.[20]
- Crêpe meteor
- Soft silk crêpe, twill weave reversing to satin.[20]
- Crêpe mohair
- Silk and mohair blend crêpe.[20]
- Crêpe morette
- Trade name. Lightweight worsted crêpe with heavier, looser filling.[20]
- Crêpe mosseux
- A type of opaque voile which resists shrinkage.[20]
- Crêpe myosotis
- A later mourning crêpe made in the 1930s, in crimped silk with a soft finish.[7] Courtaulds launched this textile in the early 1930s as an alternative to the increasingly unpopular traditional stiff mourning crapes.[3]
- Crepenette
- Crêpe-effect pongee.[20]
- Crêpe ondese
- Rough textured rayon-acetate blend crêpe.[20]
- Crêpe poplin
- A late 19th century silk-wool rib fabric with crêpe effect.[20]
- Crêpe rachel
- French print cotton-worsted blend crêpe.[20]
- Crêpe radio
- British raw silk crêpe with a ribbed effect, using alternate double rows of S-twist and Z-twist.[20]
- Crêpe royal
- Sheer crêpe-de-chine introduced in 1889.[7]
- Crêpe suzette
- A variation on crepon georgette.[20]
- Crepine
- Silk with crêpe dots. The name also describes a type of fringe.[20]
- Crepoline
- A class of transparent fabrics with a warp-wise crêpe effect.[20]
- Crepon
- A heavier crêpe with an exaggerated warp-directional texture produced by several weaving techniques.[20] A soft silky version was introduced in 1866, and the second, much heavier version in 1882. In the 1890s crepon also described a woollen fabric that puffed between stripes or squares, including crepon milleraye (striped) and crepon Persian (with 'Oriental patterns').[7]
- Crystal crêpe
- An English term for silk crêpe.[21]
- Crespe
- Lightweight crimped mourning gauze, late 16th century.[7]
- Cynara
- An crêpe-type fabric in rayon and acetate.[22]
- Cyprus
- Fine crêpe used for mourning hatbands in the 15th-17th centuries, made in Cyprus.[23]
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- Flat crêpe
- Also called mock crepe or (inaccurately) French crepe. A smooth, flat plain-weave fabric, typically a silk blend, with hard-twisted yarns and ordinary yarn warp. Also used to describe a similar fabric made without crepe-twist yarns.[27]
- French crêpe
- 1. An inaccurately-applied name for flat crêpe.
- 2. Plain-weave light silk or rayon cloths similar to flat crêpe.
- 3. A lingerie weight fabric with ordinary yarn warp and a twisted filling yarn that is less twisted than typical crepe twist.[28]
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- Gamsa
- An imitation satin-backed crêpe in twill weave rayon.[29]
- Georgette
- 1. Sheer, lightweight fabric named after the couturiere Georgette de la Plante.[30]
- 2. A crepe-surfaced plain weave silk or synthetic fabric with alternating S and Z twist yarns in both warp and weft.
- 3. An English term for cotton crepe.[31]
- Georgian crêpe
- A chain-pebbled crêpe (called armure in France) often with diamond, shield or bird's-eye motifs.[31]
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- Health crêpe
- See crêpe de santé.
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- Lingerie crêpe
- See French crêpe.
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- Sand crepe or moss crepe
- Crêpe with a grained or frosted surface appearance, created with a small dobby weave.[41]
- Sawdust crêpe
- Similar to sand crêpe but with a harsher surface.[42]
- Satin-back crêpe
- Reversible fabric with a satin face and a crêpe reverse.[19]
- Shioze
- Japanese spun-silk crêpe.[43]
- Spanish crêpe
- See Crepe d'espagne.
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- Crêpe paper, paper with similar texture
- Momie cloth
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