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  2. List of textile fibres - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibres or textile fibers (see spelling differences) can be created from many natural sources (animal hair or fur, cocoons as with silk worm cocoons), as well as semisynthetic methods that use naturally occurring polymers, and synthetic methods that use polymer-based materials, and even minerals such as metals to make foils and wires.

  3. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Navajo rugs are woven by Navajo women today from Navajo-Churro sheep, other breeds of sheep, or commercial wool. Designs can be pictorial or abstract, based on historic Navajo, Spanish, Asian, or Persian designs. 20th century Navajo weavers include Clara Sherman and Hosteen Klah , who co-founded the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian .

  4. Hessian fabric - Wikipedia

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    Rug making on hessian Look up hessian , burlap , or crocus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hessian ( UK : / ˈ h ɛ s i ə n / , US : / ˈ h ɛ ʃ ə n / [ 1 ] ), burlap in North America, [ 2 ] or crocus in Jamaica [ 3 ] and the wider Caribbean, is a woven fabric made of vegetable fibres , usually the skin of the jute plant [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ...

  5. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Red tones in Navajo rugs of this period come either from Saxony or from a raveled cloth known in Spanish as bayeta, which was a woolen manufactured in England. With the arrival of the railroad in the early 1880s, another machine-produced yarn came into use in Navajo weaving: four-ply aniline dyed yarn known as Germantown because the yarn was ...

  6. Kapok fibre - Wikipedia

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    Kapok fibers can be used as fill for pillows, quilts and other bedding, upholstery, and soft toys. It is also good thermal and acoustic insulation. [3] [1] [5] Kapok was used as a filling for life jackets because of its low density, due to the air-filled lumen and low wetting. After extended immersion in water, the buoyancy is only slightly ...

  7. Carpet - Wikipedia

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    One of the Ardabil Carpets A small rug. A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon, or polyester have often been used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool.

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