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  2. Valentina (software) - Wikipedia

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    Valentina is an open source pattern drafting software tool, designed to be the foundation of a new stack of open source tools to remake the garment industry. [5] The program was named after mother of the founder Roman Telezhinsky, a cutter by profession, who gave him the idea for the project.

  3. Modacrylic - Wikipedia

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    The combination of flame retardancy and low density is also useful in furnishings, draperies, and outdoor fabrics. Modacrylics are also commonly used in fake fur fabrics, toupées, wigs and fleece-type fabric. By mixing the various forms of fibers one can easily create a realistic synthetic fur.

  4. Mola (art form) - Wikipedia

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    Kuna woman selling Molas in Panama City. The Mola or Molas is a hand-made textile that forms part of the traditional women's clothing of the indigenous Guna people from Panama and Colombia.

  5. Madras (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Samples of cloth showing many typical Madras patterns. Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India. [1]

  6. Sunburst - Wikipedia

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    A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. [1] Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used.

  7. Italian fashion - Wikipedia

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    The Italian Catherine de' Medici, as Queen of France. Her fashions were the main trendsetters of courts at the time. Fashion in Italy started to become the most fashionable in Europe since the 11th century, and powerful cities of the time, such as Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, Vicenza and Rome began to produce robes, jewelry, textiles, shoes, fabrics, ornaments and elaborate dresses. [8]

  8. Shatnez - Wikipedia

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    Light microscopy is performed on fabric pulled from a garment. The fabric is placed between two glass slides. Many people bring clothing to special experts who are employed to detect the presence of shatnez. [20] A linen admixture can be detected during the process of dyeing cloth, as wool absorbs dye more readily than linen does. [5]

  9. 1960s in fashion - Wikipedia

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    After the Second World War, fabrics like nylon, corfam, orlon, terylene, lurex and spandex were promoted as cheap, easy to dry, and wrinkle-free. The synthetic fabrics of the 1960s allowed space age fashion designers such as the late Pierre Cardin to design garments with bold shapes and a plastic texture. [ 23 ]