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  • Basket Weave : Variation on a plain weave; two over, two under.
  • Broadcloth : A tightly woven lustrous cotton cloth with fine embedded crosswide ribs. It resembles poplin and is used extensively in shirts and blouses, as well as home decorating.
  • Butcher's Linen : It was originally a heavy, sturdy linen fabric used for French butchers' aprons. This type of heavy fabric was also used for interfacing.
  • Burn-Out Prints : Printing with a chemical substance that destroys the fiber in the pattern design print area.
  • Cashmere : Comes from the inner coat hair of an Asian Cashmere Goat.
  • Cut-And-Loop Pile : Made with a combination of both loop and cut yarns and can be either level or multilevel.
  • Corduroy : A ribbed, pile fabric. Comes in various weights and weaves. Used widely for both apparel and home furnishings.
  • Chambray : A plain-weave fabric made of color warp yarn and white fill yarn.
  • Combed Cotton : The combing process removes the short fibers and any debris that may be in the fiber when it was in the field. A cleaner, more uniform and lustrous yarn results.
  • Chenille : A fuzzy cotton yarn or fabric that has pile protruding around it. Chenille is the French word for “caterpillar.”
  • Chintz : Glazed cotton fabric, often printed. Used widely in upholstery fabric.
  • Cotton Sheers : Batiste, lawn, organdy, and voile are all cotton sheers. Used for both home and apparel products.
  • Damask : A patterned cotton fabric made on a jacquard loom. It is used for decorative fabrics and fine apparel.
  • Duck : Also known as canvas. A rugged plain-weave cloth.
  • Dotted Swiss : Lightweight, sheer, fine-yarn fabric with small dotted areas that have been either woven or flocked to achieve the dot effect.
  • Double Knit : A circular, knit fabric of double thickness.
  • Dye Lot : Variations in the chemical concentrations from one batch to the next Reversible fabrics.
  • Denim : A rugged, durable twill fabric that is most popular in indigo blue. Denim rules the casual apparel world, but it has also become popular in decorative fabrics for the home.
  • Embroidery : Art of creating and producing raised designs or motifs on woven fabrics.
  • Flannel : A plain-weave cloth heavily brushed for softness. Often used in apparel and sheets.
  • Flax : Comes from the stem or stalk of the flax plant; when flax is woven, it produces linen.
  • Greige Goods : (pronounced “gray”) Loom-state cloth that has not received dry and wet finishing.
  • Herringbone : Considered a broken twill because both right and left-hand twill resemble the backbone of a herring fish.
  • Interlock : A double-knit, plain-stitched fabric that looks the same on both sides. Used for home and apparel.
  • Jersey : A single-knit, plain-stitched fabric with a face side that is distinctly different from the back side. Used for both home and apparel consumer products. Recently, American manufacturers have introduced cotton jersey for bed linens.
  • Jacquard : The jacquard loom produces elaborate cloth weaves that are very important for decorative fabrics, such as tapestries, brocade, and damask.
  • Jacquard : Design that includes very detailed, intricate motifs.
  • Jute : Bast fiber that grows in the stem section of a plant in India; Yellow and brown in color; Coarse and harsh.
  • Mercerized Cotton : A wet finishing process for cotton yarn or fabric, which results in a stronger and more lustrous yarn that takes dye better with brighter, deeper colors.
  • Matelassé : A dobby or jacquard cotton fabric. The pattern stands out to give a quilted look for bedspreads and other home fabrics, or fine apparel fabrics.
  • Natural Fiber : Found in plants or animals.
  • Oxford : A group of cotton fabrics, including pinpoint, made with a modified plain or basket weave. Used primarily for shirting.
  • Poplin : A fabric with a fine horizontal rib effect on the surface because of a warp yarn finer than the filling yarn; usually a high-thread-count cloth. Poplin is used for high-quality shirting.
  • Pique : Medium-weight, crisp, cotton-type fabric with raised dobby designs.
  • Plain Weave : Yarn passes alternately one over, one under until the yarn is full.
  • Polyester : Manufactured fiber in which the fiber-forming substance is any long-chain synthetic polymer composed of at least 85% by weight of an ester of a substituted aromatic carboxylic.
  • Pima Cotton : It is from Egyptian cotton, is an excellent quality cotton fabric.
  • Plissé : Fabric treated with a solution that shrinks parts of the goods to create a crinkle or pleated effect. Used for both home and apparel.
  • Polished Cotton : It is either a satin weave cotton or a plain weave cotton that is finished chemically to appear shiny.
  • Percale : A smooth, finely combed woven sheeting with a minimum thread count of 180 threads per square inch.
  • Sateen : A silky smooth fabric that has a lustrous sheen resembling satin.
  • Swiss : It is a sheer, very fine cotton that can be plain or decorated with dots or other designs.
  • Screen Printing : Printing formed by engraved rollers.
  • Sham : A decorative covering for a pillow on a bed with a decorative flange.
  • Sateen : A satin weave fabric with a smooth, lustrous surface. Used for both home and apparel.
  • Silk : Continuous strands of filament fiber found in a cocoon.
  • Striped Sateen : A woven-in weave of section-striped pattern. (see Sateen)
  • Sheeting : Plain-woven, carded yarn cloth in medium and heavy weights. When the thread count is low, sheeting is defined as muslin. When the thread count is high and the yarn is combed, sheeting is defined as percale.
  • Seersucker : A lightweight cotton fabric with a woven crinkle achieved by altering tension in the warp yarns. Seersucker is synonymous with the classic summer suit.
  • Table Skirt : Gathered, tailored, or pleated piece of fabric that reaches from the top of the box spring to the floor.
  • Terry Cloth : A cotton fabric with moisture-absorbing loop pile covering the entire surface on one or both sides. Used for home fashions, as well as summer apparel.
  • Twill : Identified by the diagonal lines on its face. It is an incredibly versatile fabric.
  • Velour : A term applied to cut pile cloths in general. Velour is soft, luxurious and widely used.
  • Venise : It is a very fine damask table linen consisting of large floral patterns.
  • Velveteen is an all cotton pile fabric with short pile resembling velvet.
  • Velvet : A warp-pile fabric with short, densely woven cut pile, giving the fabric a soft, rich texture.
  • Wool : Fibers that form the covering of a sheep.
  • Whipcord is a strong fabric with a diagonal round cords that can also be produced in wool.
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