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2. Bourette - Wikipedia

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   Bourette is a silk fabric with bumps often blended with other yarns made of Bourette fibers. The name "Bourette" is from its constituting fiber. It has a rough surface incorporating multicolored threads and knots of spun silk. The fabric is made with silk bourette and wool or cotton yarn. Bourette is a lightweight single cloth with a rough ...

3. Devoré - Wikipedia

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   Devoré techniques use blended fabrics which combine protein-based fibres such as silk with cellulose-based fibres such as viscose, cotton, or rayon. In order to create the 'burnout' pattern, a chemical gel containing sodium hydrogen sulphate is applied to the fabric in patterns, dissolving away the cellulose-based fibres and leaving behind the ...

4. 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 ...

5. Brocade - Wikipedia

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   ] The complexity and high quality of luxurious silk fabrics caused Italy to become the most important and superior manufacturer of the finest silk fabrics for all of Europe. [ citation needed ] The almost sculptural lines of the fashions during the Renaissance were paired perfectly with the exquisite beauty and elegance of brocade, damask, and ...

6. Bizarre silk - Wikipedia

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   Bizarre silks were woven on the drawloom, and the colorful patterns were brocaded or created with floating pattern wefts ().At the height of the fashion, the average repeat of a bizarre silk pattern was 27 inches (69 cm) high and ten inches (26 cm) wide, repeating twice across the width of the fabric. [4]

7. Georgette (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Georgette (from crêpe Georgette) is a sheer, lightweight, dull-finished crêpe fabric named after the early 20th century French dressmaker Georgette de la Plante. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally made from silk , Georgette is made with highly twisted yarns.