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2. Grenadine (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   Fermo Fossati and Seteria Bianchi are two of the most renowned makers of grenadine in Como. The former is the oldest silk-making company in Italy – the third oldest in Europe after the British Vanners and Stephen Walters & Sons. Seteria Bianchi produced the fabrics for the Brioni jackets worn by Daniel Craig in 007 Casino Royale. Ettore ...

3. Tissue (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   The term tissue is used to denote a type of fabrics that are characterized by their delicate, lightweight, and transparent nature. [1] [2] [7] Tissue gingham is a type of plain-weave fabric that is lightweight and is characterized by its yarn-dyed construction. [8] Tissue fabric may be woven, knitted, or even nonwoven, and features a film-like ...

4. Barathea - Wikipedia

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   The yarns used are various combinations of wool, silk and cotton. Worsted barathea (made with a smooth wool yarn) is often used for evening coats, [3] such as dress coats, dinner jackets, and military uniforms, [4] in black and midnight blue. Silk barathea, either all silk, or using cotton weft and silken warp, is widely used in the necktie ...

5. Slub (textiles) - Wikipedia

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   Wool fabrics, such as tweeds, may also be slubbed. [1] Unspun short-fiber silk noil; see sericulture Tsumugi cloth, showing slubs. Silk is a filament fiber, and the only natural fiber type to come in filament length naturally (strands can be over 1.5 km long). However, some silk fibers are shorter in length, and must therefore be processed as ...

6. Weighted silk - Wikipedia

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   Unlike most fabric/yard goods which are sold by the yard (or metre), silk is sold to the wholesaler by weight; however, as the first step in processing silk fibre is to "degum" it - removing the sericin from the fibre, a protein naturally produced by silkworms that coats silkworm cocoons - approximately one-fifth of the weight of silk fibre is lost, representing a significant drop in the ...

7. Meisen (textile) - Wikipedia

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   Meisen cloth, probably 1950s Meisen (銘 （ めい ） 仙 （ せん ）, lit. ' common silk stuff ') is a type of silk fabric traditionally produced in Japan ; it is durable, hard-faced, and somewhat stiff, with a slight sheen, : 79 and slubbiness is deliberately emphasised. Meisen was first produced in the late 19th century, and became widely popular during the 1920s and 30s (late- Taishō ...