jaspé

comparative more jaspé · superlative most jaspé · alternative jaspe

1. Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
2. Streaked; variegated.

   He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.

   1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187

plural jaspés · alternative jaspe

1. countableuncountableA shaded, plainweave type of cloth, embroidered or similarly printed.

   Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads.

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   The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé. The tecnique used to produce real jaspé stripes is lengthy: the warps are measured, tied to resist the dye in some places, and then put into a dyebath and the dye fixed; the warp is then dried and taken to the loom.

   1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57