Gore (fabrics)

In clothing and similar applications, a gore is a triangular piece of a textile as might be used in shaping a garment to fit contours of the body.

Four trapezoidal gores make a skirt

The word is derived from Old English gār, meaning spear. In the course of time the word came to be used for a piece of cloth used in making clothes.[1] In dressmaking and hatmaking, it refers to triangular or rhomboid pieces of fabric which are combined to create a fuller three dimensional effect. In knitting gloves and mittens, a "thumb gore" is often incorporated from the wrist part way to the tip of the thumb to accommodate the gradually increasing width of the hand.

References
  1. Skeat, Walter William (1901). A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 218.
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