Plain silk - Hiraginu

Japanese: 平絹 - ひらぎぬ

A type of silk fabric. Raw silk of roughly the same thickness is woven in a plain weave with one or two warp strands and two or three weft strands. During the Edo period, high-quality, heavy silk was called habutae, while lighter silk used for linings came to be called plain silk, and generally came to refer to the lining of Japanese clothing. Silk dyed with turmeric and then red with safflower is called red silk (momi). Recently, the name plain silk is rarely used because of the large amount of synthetic fibers used.

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Japanese:

絹織物の一種。ほぼ同じ太さの生糸を，経に1～2本，緯に2～3本を引きそろえて平織にしたもの。江戸時代に，上質で重目のものを羽二重 (はぶたえ) といい，軽目のもので，裏地に使用するものを平絹と呼ぶようになり，一般に和服の胴裏をさすようになった。これをウコンで下染めし，ベニバナで紅色に染めたものを特に紅絹 (もみ) という。最近は，化学繊維類が多量に使われているため，平絹の名はほとんど使われない。

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