What is "Textile" - Definition & Explanation
Any item manufactured from natural or man-made fibres or filaments, e.g. yarns, threads, cords, ropes, braids, lace, embroidery, nets and fabrics made by weaving, knitting, braiding, felting, bonding and tufting.
The term is defined in this thesaurus as 'cloth', whether woven, beaten, knitted or otherwise manufactured. If an object is regarded as a textile, but the material term already occurs in this thesaurus under another Broad Term, enter 'textile' in the record as an additional keyword. See also FIBRE and its Narrow Terms.
A woven or knit cloth. The term is used generically to define many various fabrics. The word is some times used to define an entire industry. For example, "the Apparel Search Company is the leading informational resource for the Apparel & Textile Industry's.
Fabric or cloth, made by any number of techniques, eg, weaving, knitting, plaiting.
A broad classification of materials that can be utilized in constructing fabrics and the fabrics made with those materials.
Some more terms: Crepe WeaveA weave that has a random distribution of floats that produces an all-over pebbled effect, so disguising the weave...
Candlewick Fabric
Unbleached muslin bed sheeting-sometimes called Kraft muslin-used as a base fabric on which a chenille effect is formed by application of candlewick (heavy-piled yarns) loops which are then cut to...
Breaking Strength
The maximum tensile force observed during a test in which the specimen is stretched until it...
Pique Knit
A knitting method that creates a fine textured surface that appears similar to a birdsnest or waffle...
Repp
It is basically a warp rib fabric in which the rib lines are alternated by coarse and fine ends. These are interlaced by corresponding coarse and fine picks of....
Companies for Textile: If you manufacture, distribute or otherwise deal in
Textile.