Genova velvet
A type of velvet where in Jacquard patterns are woven into the ground fabric and where the pile is made of a combination of cut and uncut (loop) pile. This fabric is also known as Venetian velvet, or more generally, as épinglé velvet. In the actual terminology of furnishing fabrics it is mostly named with its French name "velours de Gênes".
This kind of fabric is made on a wire loom or épinglé loom.
Geotextile
A geotextile is a synthetic permeable textile.
Gingham
Gingham is a fabric made from dyed cotton yarn.
Glass fiber
Fiberglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is widely used in the manufacture of insulation and textiles.
Gossamer
A gossamer is a very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, popular for white wedding dresses and decorations.
Grogram
Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or with mohair and often stiffened with gum.
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Heddle
Common component of a loom used to separate warp threads for passage of the weft. Commonly made of cord or wire.
Hem
To hem a piece of cloth (in sewing), a garment worker folds up a cut edge, folds it up again, and then sews it down. The process of hemming thus completely encloses the cut edge in cloth, so that it cannot ravel.
A hem is also the edge of cloth hemmed in this manner.
Hemp
The main uses of hemp fibre are rope, sacking, carpet, nets and webbing. Hemp is also being used in increasing quantities in paper manufacturing. The cellulose content is about 70%.
Huckaback
Huckaback is a type of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.
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Ikat
Ikat is a style of weaving that uses a tie-dye process on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. A Double Ikat is when both the warp and the weft are tie-dyed before weaving.
Intarsia
Intarsia is a knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours.
Interfacing
Interfacing is a common term for a variety of materials used on the unseen or "wrong" side of fabrics in sewing.
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Jacquard
Jacquard
Jacquard loom
The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards. It uses punched cards to control the pattern being woven. It is a form of dobby loom, where individual harnesses can be raised and lowered independently.
Jamdani
Jamdani is a kind of fine cloth made in Bangladesh.
Jute
Jute is a long, soft, shiny plant fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.
Jute is one of the cheapest natural fibres, and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibres are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose and lignin.

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Knit fabrics
Knit fabrics are fabrics that were produced through the process of knitting.
Knitting needle gauge
A knitting needle gauge makes is used to determine the size of a knitting needle. Some also double for crochet hooks. Most needles come with the size written on the needle, but many needles (like double-pointed needles) tend to not be labeled. Also, with wear and time the label often wears off.
Needle gauges can be made of any material, and are often made for metal and plastic. They tend to be about 3 by 5 inches. They contain holes of various sizes, and often have a ruler along the edge for determining the gauge of a sample.

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Laboratory equipment
           Laboratory equipmnet machinery refers to textile machines

Lamé
Lamé is a type of brocaded clothing fabric with inwoven metal threads, typically of gold or silver, giving it a metallic sheen.
Lawn
Lawn is a fine linen or cotton cloth.
Linen
Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen produced in Ireland is called Irish linen. Linens are fabric household goods, such as pillowcases and towels.
Lining
Lining
Loden
Loden is water-resistant material for clothing made from sheep wool.
Loom
The Loom is a machine used for weaving fabric.
Lucet
Lucet is a method of cordmaking or braiding which is believed to date back to the Viking era. Lucet cord is square, strong, and slightly springy. It closely resembles knitted I-cord or the cord produced on a knitting spool. Lucet cord is formed by a series of loops, and will therefore unravel if cut.

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Macramé
Macrame or macramé is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Its primary knots are the square knot and forms of hitching (full hitch and double half hitches).
Mercerized cotton
Mercerization is a treatment for cotton fabric and thread mostly employed to give cotton a lustrous appearance.
Merino
Merino is the Spanish name for a breed of sheep, and hence applied to a woolen fabric.
Mesh
A mesh is similar to fabric or a web in that it has many connected or weaved pieces. In clothing, a mesh is often defined as fabric that has a large number of closely-spaced holes, such as is common practice for modern sports jerseys.
Metallic fiber
Metallic fibers are fibers used in textiles which are either composed of metal, or fibers of other materials with a metal coating.
Their uses include decoration and the reduction of static electricity.
Microfibre
           Microfibre is a term for fibres with strands thinner than one denier. Fabrics made with
           microfibres are exceptionally soft and hold their shape well.
Millinery
Millinery is women's hats and other articles sold by a milliner, or the profession or business of designing, making, or selling hats for women.
Modal
Modal is a cellulose fiber made by spinning reconstituted cellulose from beech trees.
Mohair
Mohair is a silk-like fabric made from the hair of the Angora goat. It is durable, light and warm, although some people find it uncomfortably itchy.
Mungo
Fibrous woollen material generated from waste fabric, particularly tightly woven cloths and rags. See also: shoddy.
Muslin
Muslin is a type of finely-woven cotton fabric, introduced to Europe from the Middle East in the 17th century. It was named for the city where it was first made, Mosul in what is now Iraq.

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Nainsook
Nainsook is a fine, soft muslin fabric, often to used to make babies clothing.
Nap
Nap is a term for the raised surface of certain cloth, such as flannel.
Needlepoint
Needlepoint is a form of canvas work created on a mesh canvas. The stitching threads used may be wool, silk, or rarely cotton. Stitches may be plain, covering just one mesh intersection with a single orientation, or fancy, such as Bargello. Plain stitches, known as Tent stitches, may be worked as basketweave or half cross.
Needlework
Needlework is another term for the handicraft of decorative sewing and textile arts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework.
Net
Net is a device made by fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing net, a soccer goal, a butterfly net, or the court divider in tennis
Nonwoven fabric
Non-woven textiles are those which are neither woven nor knit, for example felt. Non-wovens are typically not strong (unless reinforced by a backing), and do not stretch. They are cheap to manufacture.
Novelty yarn
Novelty yarn
Nylon
Nylon is a synthetic polymer, a plastic. Nylon fibres are used to make many synthetic fabrics and women's stockings.

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Oilcloth
Oilcloth was, traditionally, heavy cotton or linen cloth with a linseed oil coating: it was semi-water-proof. The most familiar use was for brightly printed kitchen tablecloths. Dull colored oilcloth was used for bedrolls, sou'westers, and tents. By the late 1950's, oilcloth became a synonym for vinyl (polyvinyl chloride) bonded to a flanneled cloth.
Organdy
Organdy or organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance. Its sheerness and crispness are the result of an acid finish on greige (unbleached) lawn goods. Because of its stiffness and fiber content, it is very prone to wrinkling.
Organza
Organza is a thin, plain weave, sheer fabric traditionally made from silk, the continuous filament of silkworms. Nowadays, though many organzas are woven with synthetic filament fibers such as polyester or nylon, the most luxurious organzas are still woven in silk

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Paisley
Paisley is a droplet-shaped vegetal motif, similar to half of the T'ai Chi symbol, the Indian bodhi tree leaf, or the mango tree. The design originated in India and spread to Scotland when British soldiers brought home cashmere shawls.
Patchwork
Patchwork is a form of needlework or craft that involves sewing together small pieces of fabric and stitching them together into a larger design, which is then usually quilted, or else tied together with pieces of yarn at regular intervals, a practice known as tying. Patchwork is traditionally 'pieced' by hand, but modern quiltmakers often use a sewing machine instead.
Percale
Percale refers to a closely woven, high thread count, cotton fabric often used for sheets and clothing.

Pheripheric machinery for textile industry

Persian weave
Persian weave is a method of weave used in jewelry and other art forms.
Pile knit
Pile knit
Pile weave
Pile weave
Pill
Pill
Plaid
From a Scots language word meaning blanket, plaid usually referring to patterned woollen cloth otherwise known as tartan.
Plain weave
Plain weave
Plied yarn
Plied yarn is yarn that has been plied, with the process called plying.
Plush
Plush is a fabric having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet.
Polyester
Polyester is a synthetic fiber
Poplin
Poplin is a heavy, durable fabric that has a ribbed appearance. It is made with wool, cotton, silk, rayon, or any mixture of these. The ribs run across the fabric from selvage to selvage. They are formed by using coarse filling yarns in a plain weave.
Press

Purl stitch
a commonly used stitch in knitting

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Qalamkari
Qalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed textile, produced in various places in India.
Qiviut
Qiviut is the wool of the musk ox.
Quilt
Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating batting in between. A bed covering or similar large rectangular piece of quilting work is called a quilt.

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