TEXTILES
FABRICS
CLOTHS
5 Basic Fabrics:-
Silk:
A natural fibre, a soft fabric with lustrous look that does not contain heat so it is good for hot climates
Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into smooth fabric prized for its softness
2 Main Types of Silk
1. Mulberry Silk produced by the Bombyx Mori. The silkworm larvae produce the silk if cultivated in habitats with fresh mulberry leaves for consumption.
2. Wild Silk e.g Tussah Silk is produced by silkworms feeding purely on oak leaves.
Cotton
Linen
Wool
Worsted
Animal Textiles
Wool:-
It's the hair of the domestic goat or sheep.
Wollen
Worsted:-
It's finer yarn which is spun from longer fibres which have been combed to be parallel.
Cashmere:-
It's the hair of the Indian cashmere goat.
Mohair:-
It's the hair of the North African angora goat.
Angora:-
It's the long thick soft hair of the angora rabbit.
It can be mixed other fibres such as nylon for effect.
Silk
Plant Textiles
Mineral Textiles
Synthetic Textiles
Lurex
Nylon
Spandex
FABRIC AND CLOTH
ABA:-
AEROPHANE:-
ALEPINE:-
It's mixed mixed wool and silk or mohair and cotton fabric.
ALPACA:-
It's fine wool made from alpaca hair.
ANGORA:-
ARDASS:-
It's fine silk.
ARMURE:-
twilled woollen or silk fabric
ARRASENE:-
embroidery fabric of wool and silk
ATLAS:-
It's rich satin fabric.
BAFT:-
It's cheap coarse cotton fabroc.
BAGGING:- Coarse fabric for making bags or sacks
BAIZE:- Coarse fabric for making bags or sacks
BALBRIGGAN:- Knitted cotton fabric
BALDACHIN:-
It's a rich embroidered silk and gold fabric.
BALZARINE:- Light cotton dress material
BARATHEA:- Pebbly silk or worsted fabric with broken ribbed weave
BAREGE:- Gauzy fabric of silk, cotton, wool or worsted
BARRACAN:-
It's a fine silk cloth.
BARRAS:- Coarse linen fabric
BARRATEEN:- Some kind of FABRIC
BATISTE:-
It's a very light fabric, fine soft sheer fabric of plain weave; cotton or linen.
BAYADERE:- Fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours
BEAUPERS:-
It's linen fabric used for flags.
BENGALINE:- Crosswise ribbed fabric
BOMBAZINE:- Twilled silk and worsted fabric
BORATO:- thin fabric
BOUCLE:- Fabric of uneven looped yarn
BRILLIANTINE:- Light lustrous cotton and worsted fabric
BROADCLOTH:- Dense twilled or worsted fabric
BROCADE:- Rich silk fabric with raised patterns
BUCKRAM:- Stiff-finished cotton or linen used linings of garments
BUMP:-
It's a coarse cotton fabric.
BUNTING:- light loosely woven fabric used for flags
BURDET:-
It's a cotton fabric.
BURLAP:- Coarse plain-woven jute or hemp fabric
BURNET:- dark brown; dark woollen cloth
BURREL:-
It's a coarse russet cloth.
CALAMANCO:- Satin twilled woven fabric
CALICO:-
It's a plain white cotton.
CAMACA:-
It's a fine silk fabric.
CAMBRESINE:-
It's a fine linen fabric.
CAMBRIC:- Fine thin white cotton or linen fabric
CAMLET:- Strong waterproof silk or wool fabric
CANEVA:- Fancy woollen fabric made to resemble canvas
CANQUE:- Chinese cotton fabric
CASHMERE:- Soft twilled fabric made of fine goat's wool
CASHMERETTE:- Soft imitation of cashmere
CASSIMERE:- Closely woven twilled cloth of fine wool
CENDAL:- silk fabric resembling taffeta
CHALLIS:- Soft lightweight silk, wool or cotton fabric
CHAMBRAY:-
CHAMOIS:- Cotton fabric made in imitation of chamois leather
It's a cotton fabric made in imitation of chamois leather.
CHARMANTE:-
It's a silk fabric with a crepe back.
CHARMEUSE:-
It's a soft and satiny silk fabric.
CHENILLE:-
It's a velvety silk, wool or cotton fabric with protruding pile.
CHEVIOT:- Coarse heavy plain or twilled wool or worsted
CHIFFON:-
It's a sheer silk fabric.
CHINO:-
It's a strong twilled cotton cloth.
CHINTZ:-
It's a glazed printed cotton fabric.
CIRE:-
It's a fabric with a glazed finish.
CLOQUE:-
It's a fabric with an embossed design.
COBURG:- Thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk
CORDOVAN:- Soft goatskin leather
It's a goatskin leather.
CORDUROY:-
It's is a durable cotton piled fabric with vertical ribs.
CRASH:-
It's a coarse drapery and towelling fabric.
CREPE:-
It's a light crinkled fabric.
CREPON:- Heavy crepe fabric with lengthwise crinkles
CRETONNE:- Heavy cotton or linen cloth
CRIN:- horsehair fabric
It's a horsehair fabric.
CRINOLINE:- Stiff flax or cotton fabric
CUBICA:- Fine unglazed fabric like shalloon
CYPRESS:- silk or cotton gauze fabric, usually black
DAMASK:-
It's a fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave.
DELAINE:-
light fabric of wool or mixed wool and cotton
DENIM:-
It's a firm and durable twilled cotton.
DIMITY:-
It's a sheer and stout white cotton.
DOMETT:-
It's a plain cotton-wool blend.
DORNICK:-
It's a stout linen
DOWLAS:-
It's a coarse linen.
DRABBET:-
It's a coarse linen.
DRAP-DE-BERRY:-
DREADNOUGHT:-
It's a heavy woollen cloth.
DRILL:-
It's a durable twilled cotton.
DROGUET:- Ribbed woollen dress fabric
DRUGGET:- coarse durable wool fabric
DUCAPE:-
It's a plain-woven stout silk fabric.
DUCK:-
It's a durable closely woven cotton fabric.
DUFFEL:-
It's a fabric of thick, low-quality woolen cloth.
DUNGAREE:-
It's a heavy coarse durable twilled cotton, usually coloured.
DUPION:-
It's a coarse silk.
DUROY:-
It's a coarse woollen.
DUVETYN:-
It's a smooth lustrous velvety fabric.
ECARLATE:- Fine woollen cloth, usually dyed scarlet
EOLIENNE:-
It's fine silk and wool.
ETAMINE:-
It's light open-mesh cotton or worsted.
EYELET:- Small hole in fabric to allow passage of a cord; cotton fabric with small holes
FAILLE:- Shiny closely woven silk, cotton or rayon fabric
FARANDINE:-
It's silk and wool cloth.
FILOSELLE:-
It's a coarse floss silk.
FLANNEL:-
It's a light woollen fabric.
FOULARD:- Soft lightweight plain-woven or twilled silk fabric
FOULE:-
It's light wollen fuelled cloth.
FRIEZE:- Rough heavy woollen cloth
FUJI:-
It's a plain spun silk fabric.
FUSTIAN:-
It's a coarse twilled cotton.
GABARDINE:-
GALATEA:-
It's a stripped cotton
GAMBROON:-
It's twilled worsted and cloth.
GAZAR:-
It's a silk organza fabric.
GENAPPE:-
It's a worsted yarn.
GEORGETTE:-
It's a thin silk.
GINGHAM:-
It's a striped cotton cloth.
GRENADINE:-
It's a thin silk.
GROGRAM:-
It's a coarse loosely woven silk fabric.
GROSGRAIN:-
It's a heavy close-woven corded silk.
GULIX:-
It's a kind of fine linen.
HARN:-
It's a coarse linen.
HERRINGBONE:-
HODDEN:- Coarse undyed woollen cloth
HOLLAND:- coarse plain-woven cotton or linen
HOPSACK:- rough-surfaced loose fabric
HOUNDSTOOTH:- fabric with an irregular checked pattern
HUCKABACK:- absorbent cotton or linen used for towels
JACONET:- stout cotton cloth
JACQUARD:-
JASPE:- Cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect
JEAN:- Durable twilled cotton material
JERSEY:- Plain weft-knitted fabric of wool, cotton, nylon or silk
KALAMKARI:-
KELT:- Coarse fabric made of black and white wool
KENTE:-
hand-woven African silk fabric
KERSEY:-
coarse woollen cloth
KERSEYMERE:-
twilled fine wool
KHADDAR:-
homespun cotton cloth
KINCOB:-
embroided silk with gold and silver threads
LAME:- Fabrics in which metallic threads are interwoven
LASTING:- Sturdy cotton or worsted cloth
LAWN:- Fine sheer plain-woven cotton or linen
LENO:- Open-woven fabric
LINSEY:- Coarse linen and wool blend
LINSEY-WOOLSEY:- Thin coarse fabric of wool and linen
LOCKRAM:- Coarse linen
LODEN:- heavy waterproof woollen fabric
LUSTRING:- glossy silk
LUTESTRING:- Plain glossy silk
MACKINAW:- Heavy napped and felted wool cloth
MACKINTOSH:- Lightweight rubberized waterproof cotton
MADAPOLLAM:- Fine cotton cloth
MADRAS:- Fine plain-woven cotton or silk
MARABOUT:- Thin downy silk
MARCELLA:- Cotton or linen in twill weave
MAROCAIN:-
MARQUISETTE:-
MATELASSE:-
MELTON:-
MERINO:-
soft wool of the merino sheep; any soft merino-like wool or wool and cotton cloth
MESSALINE:-
MOCKADO:-
MOGADORE:-
MOHAIR:-
fabric made from silky hair of angora goats
MOIRE:-
MOLESKIN:-
heavy durable cotton
MOREEN:-
MOUSSELINE:-
MULL:-
MUSLIN:-
plain-woven fine cotton
MUSTERDEVILLERS:-
NAINSOOK:-
NANKEEN:-
NEEDLECORD:-
NINON:-
ORGANDIE:-
ORGANZA:-
transparent thin silk or nylon
ORLEANS:-
OSNABURG:-
OTTOMAN:-
OXFORD:-
PADUASOY:-
PAISLEY:-
soft wool fabric with ornamental pattern
PANNE:-
PARAMATTA:-
PASHMINA:-
PEKIN:-
PELLICULE:-
PERCALINE:-
PERSE:-
PIQUE:-
PLATILLA:-
PLISSE:- fabric with puckered finish
PONGEE:- Thin soft fabric woven from raw silk
POODLE:- Coarsely looped or nubby fabric
POPLIN:- Corded woven silk and worsted
PRUNELLA:- Strong and heavy silk or wool
RABANNA:- Raffia fabric of Madagascar
RAMIE:-
RAPLOCH:-
RASCHEL:-
RATINE:-
REP:-
RETICELLA:-
ROMAL:-
RUMCHUNDER:-
RUSSEL:-
RUSSET:- Coarse homespun cloth
SAGATHY:-
SAMITE:-
SARSENET:-
SATARA:- Ribbed lustred wool
SATEEN:- Glossy cotton or wool
SATIN:- Closely woven silk with lustrous face
SATINET:- thin silk satin or imitation
SAXONY:- Fine soft woollen fabric
SAY:- Delicate woollen fabric
SCARLET:- Fine cloth
SCRIM:- Durable plain-woven cotton fabric
SEERSUCKER:- Light puckered cotton or linen fabric
SEMPITERNUM:- Durable wool
SENDAL:- Thin silk or linen
SERGE:- Strong twilled worsted
SHALLOON:- Light twilled wool or worsted
SHANTUNG:- Plain rough silk or cotton
SHARKSKIN:- Smooth durable wool or worsted fabric
SHETLAND:- Lightweight loosely twisted wool fabric
SHODDY:-
SICILIENNE:- Ribbed silk
SILESIA:- Thin twilled cotton or linen
SILKALINE:- Soft light cotton fabric resembling silk
SINDON:- Fine linen
STAMMEL:-
STOCKINETTE:- Soft elastic cotton fabric
SURAH:- Soft twilled silk or rayon
SWANSDOWN:-
SWANSKIN:- Soft napped fabric like flannel
TABARET:- Stripped watered silk and satin fabric
TABBY:- Plain-woven silk taffeta fabric
TABINET:- Silk and wool watered fabric
TAFFETA:- Thin glossy silk
TAMIN:- Thin glazed worsted
TAMIS:- Thin wool
TARLATAN:- Thin sheer stiff cotton
TERRY:- Piled fabric consisting of uncut loops
TICKING:- Strong linen or cotton fabric used for mattress and pillow cases
TIFFANY:- Transparent silk-like gauzy fabric
TIRETAINE:- Wool cloth mixed with cotton or linen
TOILE:- Plain or simple twilled fabric
TRICOLETTE:- Silk or rayon knitted fabric
TRICOT:- Plain knitted silk or woollen fabric
TRICOTINE:- Double-twilled worsted fabric
TULLE:- sheer and delicate silk
TUSSAH:- Brownish silk fabric
TWEED:- Rough twilled wool
TWILL:- Any diagonally woven fabric
VELOUR:- Piled velvety cotton
VELOUTINE:- Velvety corded wool
VELVET:- Soft piled fabric of silk , cotton or synthetic material
VELVETINE:- Cotton with silk pile
VICUNA:- fabric made fromwool of the vicuna, a small ruminant
VOILE:- Soft fine sheer fabric
WADMAL:- Thick coarse wool
WHIPCORD:-
WIGAN:- Stiff plain-woven cotton
WINCEY:- Plain or twilled cotton
WOOLSEY:- Cotton and wool blend
WORCESTER:- Fine wool
WORSTED:- Fine closely-woven wool
ZANELLA:-
ZEPHYR:-
ZIBELINE:- Soft piled wool
Cotton:
Leather:
Denim:
Silk:
Linen:
Viscose:
Chiffon:
Cashmere:
Jersey:
Crepe:
Nylon:
Last Updated 8th December 2012