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2. Damask - Wikipedia

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   Over time, damask has become a broader term for woven fabrics with a reversible pattern, not just silks. [3] There are a few types of damask: true, single, compound, and twill. True damask is made entirely of silk. [3] Single damask has only one set of warps and wefts and thus is made of up to two colors. Compound damask has more than one set ...

3. Bed sheet - Wikipedia

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   The fitted sheet may also be secured using a drawstring instead of elastic. The purpose of a fitted bottom sheet is to keep it from slipping off the mattress while the bed is in use. A particular way of folding and tucking while making the bed, known as "hospital corners," is sometimes used when the bottom sheet is flat rather than fitted.

4. Georg Jensen Damask - Wikipedia

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   Georg Jensen Damask has collaborated with designers such as John Becker, [3] Bodil Bødtker-Næss, [3] Knud V. Engelhardt, [3] Arne Jacobsen, Nina Ferlov, Grethe Sørensen, [6] Bent Georg Jensen, Vibeke Klint, Kim Naver and Jette Nevers [7] This has been an important source of interest for Nevers for a considerable time.

5. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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   Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

6. Wrinkle-resistant fabric - Wikipedia

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   Advances in producing permanent press fabrics involved a series of agents that crosslink the cellulose-based fibers that comprise most clothing. Wrinkle resistant treatments have been used since 1929, when cotton fabrics were treated with a solution of urea and formaldehyde. The chemical treatment stiffened the fabric, thus making it wrinkle ...