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2. Lint (material) - Wikipedia

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   Cotton lint, or cotton linters, [4] is a byproduct of the process of ginning cotton, consisting of the silky fibers that remain attached to the seeds of the cotton plant, as well as other more coarse fibers. This material may be purified and used for such purposes as the manufacture of paper.

3. Blend (textile) - Wikipedia

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   Camel hair can be blended with sheep wool. Camel hair provides better thermal insulation per weight, and it is finer and more expensive than cotton, so a camelhair-sheepwool blend produces a lighter and warmer blend than sheepwool alone. [1]: 30 Cotton is frequently blended with polyester; the blend is more economical than a 100% cotton product ...

4. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptians were known for creating thread using plant fibers, wool and hair. [1] Today, thread can also be made of many different materials including but not limited to cotton, wool, flax, nylon, silk, polyester etc. There are also metal threads (sometimes used in decorative textiles), which can be made of fine wire.

5. List of textile fibres - Wikipedia

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   Textile fibres or textile fibers (see spelling differences) can be created from many natural sources (animal hair or fur, cocoons as with silk worm cocoons), as well as semisynthetic methods that use naturally occurring polymers, and synthetic methods that use polymer-based materials, and even minerals such as metals to make foils and wires.

6. I Switched from Polyester Bedding to Linen—And I'll Never Go Back

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   "While our 100% linen collection remains at the heart of Piglet in Bed, we recently introduced a linen/cotton blend as we began to recognize the rising cost of flax, the primary material used to ...

7. Wrinkle-resistant fabric - Wikipedia

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   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-resistant. [3] Starting in the 1940s, a series of urea-formaldehyde derivatives were introduced.