A plain woven, light weight or medium-weight fabric made from wild silk. Almost always pale or dark tan, but now sometimes printed, bleached and dy...
The basic fiber forming substance for olefin.
Warp pile fabric originally made from silk or wool that is distinct from velvet because of its longer and less dense pile. Modern plushes can be ma...
Usually a print cloth treated with chemicals that cause part of the cloth to shrink, creating a permanently crinkled surface.
The most simple method of interlacing warp and weft threads to make a cloth. Each filling thread passes alternately under and over the warp yarns t...
Refers to a weaving style, as in “pique cotton”, which is characterized by raised parallel cords or fine ribbing (for example, in the collar of a p...
A pattern of colored stripes or bars crossing each other at right angles.
A very thin check