Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by form]
6. [materials by physical form]
7. [fiber and fiber by product]
8. [fiber by product]
9. textile materials
10. [textile materials by process or technique]
11. [textile materials by weaving technique]
12. pile weave (textile)
13. warp pile weave

Narrower term/s

• ciselé velvet
• cut velvet[+]
  • plush
• solid velvet
• uncut velvet
• voided velvet

Anotations

Scope note:

Warp pile weave, typically silk, with a short, soft dense pile produced by a supplementary warp that is raised in loops above the surface of the textile through the introduction of rods during the weaving; the loops may be cut or left uncut.