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Gauze
Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave. In technical terms, "gauze" is a weave structure in which the weft yarns are arranged in pairs and are crossed before and after each warp yarn, keeping the weft firmly in place. This weave structure is used to add stability to the fabric, which is important when using fine yarns loosely spaced. However, this weave structure can be used with any weight of yarn, and can be seen in some rustic textiles made from coarse hand-spun plant fiber yarns. Gauze is widely used for medical dressings.
Gauze can also be made of non-woven fabric.
The word gauze entered the English language in the 16th century from the French: gaze or gaz,. Its earlier linguistic history remains uncertain.
Most scholars trace gauze to a Persian word for thin cloth or an Arabic word for raw silk.
In 1678, the lexicographer Charles Du Cange suggested a medieval European ancestor for gaze (and therefore, for gauze). The 1279 Council of Buda banned clergy from wearing "black burnet, garzatum, and all other fine cloths", and the term garças is known in Italian texts from c. 1250. However, there is no evidence to connect gauze and garzatum, and a relationship is considered unlikely because gaze and gauze entered lexicons long after garzatum had been abandoned. Modern scholars derive garzatum from Italian garzare, and describe it as a napped or carded cloth. Indeed, the 1525 municipal code of Belluno equates pano garzato with pannum garzatum. But to confuse matters, garza is reused in modern Italian to represent gauze.
Du Cange further suggested that garzatum itself derived from place name Gaza (Arabic: غزة ghazza), emending it to gazzatum. Gauze remains popularly associated with Gaza, but there is no evidence for this conjecture beyond the phonetic similarity of the two words, and no trace of a historical Gazan textile industry has been found.
Other scholars trace the word gauze to a Norman word for a fine-leafed plant or a Hindi word for coarse cloth. It may be related to gossamer, which is known from Chaucer in the 14th century.
Gauze was originally made of silk and was used for clothing. It is now used for many different things, including gauze sponges for medical purposes. Modern gauze is also made of synthetic fibers, especially when used in clothing.
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Gauze
Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave. In technical terms, "gauze" is a weave structure in which the weft yarns are arranged in pairs and are crossed before and after each warp yarn, keeping the weft firmly in place. This weave structure is used to add stability to the fabric, which is important when using fine yarns loosely spaced. However, this weave structure can be used with any weight of yarn, and can be seen in some rustic textiles made from coarse hand-spun plant fiber yarns. Gauze is widely used for medical dressings.
Gauze can also be made of non-woven fabric.
The word gauze entered the English language in the 16th century from the French: gaze or gaz,. Its earlier linguistic history remains uncertain.
Most scholars trace gauze to a Persian word for thin cloth or an Arabic word for raw silk.
In 1678, the lexicographer Charles Du Cange suggested a medieval European ancestor for gaze (and therefore, for gauze). The 1279 Council of Buda banned clergy from wearing "black burnet, garzatum, and all other fine cloths", and the term garças is known in Italian texts from c. 1250. However, there is no evidence to connect gauze and garzatum, and a relationship is considered unlikely because gaze and gauze entered lexicons long after garzatum had been abandoned. Modern scholars derive garzatum from Italian garzare, and describe it as a napped or carded cloth. Indeed, the 1525 municipal code of Belluno equates pano garzato with pannum garzatum. But to confuse matters, garza is reused in modern Italian to represent gauze.
Du Cange further suggested that garzatum itself derived from place name Gaza (Arabic: غزة ghazza), emending it to gazzatum. Gauze remains popularly associated with Gaza, but there is no evidence for this conjecture beyond the phonetic similarity of the two words, and no trace of a historical Gazan textile industry has been found.
Other scholars trace the word gauze to a Norman word for a fine-leafed plant or a Hindi word for coarse cloth. It may be related to gossamer, which is known from Chaucer in the 14th century.
Gauze was originally made of silk and was used for clothing. It is now used for many different things, including gauze sponges for medical purposes. Modern gauze is also made of synthetic fibers, especially when used in clothing.