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2. Gazar - Wikipedia

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   Gazar was developed by the Swiss textile firm Abraham in collaboration with Spanish-Basque couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, who featured silk gazar in his collections of 1960–68. [2] Balenciaga's mastery of this gleaming, lightweight fabric with its "claylike" ability to hold its shape was exemplified by the trapezoid wedding gowns in his ...

3. Conductive textile - Wikipedia

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   Conductive textiles known as lamé are made with guipé thread or yarn that is conductive because it is composed of metallic fibers wrapped around a non-metallic core or has a metallic coating. A different way of achieving conductivity is to weave metallic strands into the textile. Some historic fabrics use yarns of solid metals, most commonly ...

4. Lamé (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Lamé (/ l ɑː ˈ m eɪ / lah-MAY; French:) is a type of fabric woven or knit [1] with threads made of metallic fiber wrapped around natural or synthetic fibers like silk, nylon, or spandex for added strength and stretch. (Guipé refers to the thread composed of metallic fibers wrapped around a fiber core.)

5. Cloth of gold - Wikipedia

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   Most modern metallic fabrics made in the West are known as lamé. Cloth of gold is a familiar name occasionally applied to the venomous Conus textile species of cone shell. [9] Tilsent is a luxurious silken cloth interwoven with flattened threads of gold or silver. [10]

6. Metallic fiber - Wikipedia

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   Metallic fibers are manufactured fibers composed of metal, metallic alloys, plastic-coated metal, metal-coated plastic, or a core completely covered by metal. [ 1 ] Having their origin in textile and clothing applications, gold and silver fibers have been used since ancient times as yarns for fabric decoration.

7. Lurex - Wikipedia

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   The yarn is made from synthetic film, onto which a metallic aluminium, silver, or gold layer has been vaporized. "Lurex" may also refer to cloth created with the yarn. The word "lurex" is absent in the English language as a common noun: this is the name of the trademark and the company Lurex Company Limited, [ 1 ] which launched the production ...