calico

balanced plain-weave cotton or cotton-blend fabric, often with a small printed pattern
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calico

Summary

calico is a textile[1]. calico ranks in the top 5% of textile entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (489 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • calico's image is recorded as Calico sample Crum & Co..jpg[3].
  • calico's instance of is recorded as textile[4].
  • calico's made from material is recorded as cotton[5].
  • calico's made from material is recorded as blend[6].
  • calico's subclass of is recorded as cotton fabric[7].
  • calico's Commons category is recorded as Calico[8].
  • calico's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (BiblioCanet66)-calicot.wav[9].
  • calico's said to be the same as is recorded as kattun[10].
  • calico's country of origin is recorded as India[11].
  • calico's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/023t8[12].
  • calico's described at URL is recorded as http://textilemuseum.ru/ru/[13].
  • calico's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300132872[14].
  • calico's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0087335[15].
  • calico's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • calico's described by source is recorded as Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles[17].
  • calico's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • calico's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • calico's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/calico-textile[20].
  • calico's fabrication method is recorded as plain weave[21].
  • calico's fabrication method is recorded as textile printing[22].
  • calico's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00014735n[23].
  • calico's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as calico[24].
  • calico's Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID is recorded as 10375[25].
  • calico's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kaliko[26].
  • calico's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID is recorded as tgm001551[27].

Body

Designation and Status

calico's instance of is recorded as textile[4].

Cultural Significance

Things named for calico include tricolour cat[28], a cat coat genetics[29].

Why It Matters

calico ranks in the top 5% of textile entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (489 views/month).[2] calico has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] calico is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for calico include tricolour cat[28], a cat coat genetics[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Europeana Fashion Thesaurus v1. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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