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  2. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Flannel is a cloth that is commonly used to make clothing and bedsheets. It is usually made from either wool, wool and cotton, or wool and synthetic fabric. flax Flax fiber is soft, lustrous and flexible. It is stronger than cotton fiber but less elastic. The best grades are used for linen fabrics such as damasks, lace and sheeting. Coarser ...

  3. Clothing material - Wikipedia

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    It can be assumed that the animal skins were used for clothing throughout the human history, although in the ways that are primitive when compared to the modern processing, the earliest known samples come from Ötzi the Iceman (late 4th millennium BC) with his goatskin clothes made from leather strips put together using sinews, bearskin hat, and shoes using the deerskin for the uppers and ...

  4. Textile - Wikipedia

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    The precursors of today's textiles include leaves, barks, fur pelts, and felted cloths. [23] The Banton Burial Cloth, the oldest existing example of warp ikat in Southeast Asia, is displayed at the National Museum of the Philippines. The cloth was most likely made by the native Asian people of northwest Romblon. The first clothes, worn at least ...

  5. Nonwoven fabric - Wikipedia

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    Nonwoven fabric or non-woven fabric is a fabric-like material made from staple fibre (short) and long fibres (continuous long), bonded together by chemical, mechanical, heat or solvent treatment. The term is used in the textile manufacturing industry to denote fabrics, such as felt , which are neither woven nor knitted . [ 1 ]

  6. Textile industry - Wikipedia

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    Some of the cloth was made into clothes for people living in the same area, and a large amount of cloth was exported. River navigations were constructed, and some contour-following canals . In the early 18th century, artisans were inventing ways to become more productive.

  7. Textile design - Wikipedia

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    Textile design, also known as textile geometry, is the creative and technical process by which thread or yarn fibers are interlaced to form a piece of cloth or fabric, which is subsequently printed upon or otherwise adorned. [1]

  8. Lint (material) - Wikipedia

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    Lint is the common name for visible accumulations of textile fibers, hair and other materials, usually found on and around clothing.Certain materials used in the manufacture of clothing, such as cotton, linen, and wool, contain numerous, very short fibers bundled together. [1]

  9. Metallic fiber - Wikipedia

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    Today's metal fiber industry mainly offers fibers in stainless steel, nickel, titanium, copper and aluminium for various applications. [2] Metallic filaments can be coated with transparent films to minimize tarnishing. Many methods exist to manufacture metallic fibers, and each comes with its own benefits and limitations.