MOIRE INERAILLABLE

A moire effect produced in the loom, the term means "ineffaceable moire." It is an all-silk cloth in 10-shaft weave invented by a Tignat, a silk manufacturer of Lyons, in 1843. He used two warps, one with 6,400 two-fold ends and the other 1,600 single ends. In the repeat two sheds were filled with 10 picks and two following sheds with one pick only, and so on. The combination of wefts with the different sized warps produced a design with a fancied resemblance to moire.