facture

noun

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 Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.”

   “It has become usual in discussions of Flags facture' to use the terms, suggested by [Jasper] Johns himself, ‘encaustic, oil and collage on fabric’.”

2. (dated)An invoice or bill of parcels.