絹地

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 絹地, read きぬじ, means silk cloth or fabric considered as material before it becomes a finished garment or object.
• Basic usage: It may be tailored into a pale-blue spring coat or wrapped in thin paper to protect an old piece of fabric.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Silk cloth used and preserved as material
  • It refers to silk as material for making a spring coat or as old cloth carefully stored. The focus is the fabric rather than a finished silk garment.