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2. Bedford cord - Wikipedia

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   Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy. The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width stripes with ...

3. Plain weave - Wikipedia

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   Fabrics with a plain weave are generally strong, durable, and have a smooth surface. They are often used for a variety of applications, including clothing, home textiles, and industrial fabrics. In plain weave cloth, the warp and weft threads cross at right angles, aligned so they form a simple criss-cross pattern. Each weft thread crosses the ...

4. Monk's cloth - Wikipedia

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   In the 1940s monk's cloth was used to decorate borders on towels, throws, baby blankets, pillows, wall hanging, pictures, linens and clothing. Swedish dresses were decorated for traditional outfits with a variety of threads. Today, cotton Floss and yarns are used on the fabric to create beautifully decorated items. [4]

5. List of fabrics - Wikipedia

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   Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, ... Pleated linen; ... History of clothing and textiles References ...

6. Linen - Wikipedia

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   Crash (fabric) Crash fabric is coarse linen based rugged material made from both dyed and raw yarns. Dorrock, a stout linen table cloth made in Scotland. Dowlas, a strong linen mentioned by Shakespeare; Linenize; Linothorax, armor of layers of linen; Madapollam, a fabric manufactured from cotton yarn in a linen-style weave

7. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   Lamé is a type of brocaded clothing fabric with inwoven metal threads, typically of gold or silver, giving it a metallic sheen. lawn Lawn is a fine linen or cotton cloth. linen Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linens are fabric household goods, such as pillowcases and towels, many of which were historically made from ...