facture

Noun

facture (plural factures)

1. (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
   • [T]here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and...1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
   • It has become usual in discussions of Flags facture' to use the terms, suggested by [Jasper] Johns himself, ‘encaustic, oil and collage on fabric’.1994, Fred Orton, Figuring Jasper Johns, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 114
2. (dated) An invoice or bill of parcels.