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tabako-ire A Japanese tobacco pouch which was hung
from a kurawa (ashtray) netwuke. A tabako-bon is a
tobacco cabinet, which can also be called a tabaki-dansu
and it has drawers for tobacco and a container usually metal
or china for charcoal. It would also have hooks for hanging
a pipe (Kiseru) 19th Century examples can be decorated in
lacquer. A pipe holder would be known as kiseru-zutsu.
tabby Either a basic weave where the warp thread is woven
alternatively over and under each weft thread.
Or, it is a 17th Century name for silk taffeta which has a
changeable surface similar to that of shot silk.
tabernacle clock A Renaissance period German clock
in the form of a turreted tower, often with a dial on each of
the four vertical sides, and with a balustraded gallery top
that contains hour and quarter hour bells.
table clock A spring driven clock always set within a
flat-based case of metal or wood. The dial would be
on the upper or front surface, there could be subsidiary
dials on the sides and back. They were first made in
France and Germany in the 16th Century.
taffeta A fine tabby weave silk fabric, it was used
in Britain from the 14th Century and more commonly
used from the 16th - 19th Centuries for cushion covers
and curtains. It was pulled and stretched from the 17th
Century and a gum type substance was spread over it
to make the appearance seem water finished.
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