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2. Woven fabric - Wikipedia

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   Woven fabric is any textile formed by weaving. Woven fabrics are often created on a loom , and made of many threads woven on a warp and a weft . Technically, a woven fabric is any fabric made by interlacing two or more threads at right angles to one another. [ 1 ]

3. Scrubs (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Scrubs, sometimes called surgical scrubs or nursing scrubs, are the sanitary clothing worn by physicians, nurses, dentists and other workers involved in patient care. Originally designed for use by surgeons and other operating room personnel, who would put them on when sterilizing themselves, or "scrubbing in", before surgery , they are now ...

4. Plain weave - Wikipedia

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   Balanced plain weaves are fabrics in which the warp and weft are made of threads of the same weight (size) and the same number of ends per inch as picks per inch. [ 3 ] Basketweave is a variation of plain weave in which two or more threads are bundled and then woven as one in the warp or weft, or both.

5. Textile - Wikipedia

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   Glass fibres are woven and coated with Teflon to produce beta cloth, a virtually fireproof fabric which replaced nylon in the outer layer of United States space suits since 1968. [ 103 ] Metal fibre, metal foil, and metal wire have a variety of uses, including the production of cloth-of-gold and jewellery.

6. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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   In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1]

7. Twill - Wikipedia

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   The front side of the twill is called the "technical face", and the back the "technical back". The technical face side of a twill weave fabric is the side with the most pronounced wale; it is usually more durable and more attractive, is most often used as the fashion side of the fabric, and is the side visible during weaving.