Crêpe, also spelled crepe or crape (from the French ) is a

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with a distinctively crisp and crimped appearance. The term "crape" typically refers to a form of the fabric associated specifically with

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/ref> Crêpe was also historically called "crespe" or "crisp".Taylor, pp. 246-253 It is woven of hard-spun yarn, originally silk "in the gum" (silk from which the

sericin Sericin is a protein created by ''Bombyx mori'' (silkworms) in the production of silk. Silk is a fibre produced by the silkworm in production of its Pupa#Cocoon, cocoon. It consists mainly of two proteins, fibroin and sericin. Silk consists of ...

had not been removed). There traditionally have been two distinct varieties of the crêpe: soft, Canton or Oriental crêpe, and hard or crisped crêpe.

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