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Textile Glossary
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Textile Glossary: Silkies
Focus on fabrics traditionally made of silk, their history and characteristics.
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August 29, 2025
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Textile Glossary: Casual Wear Fabrics
A Focus on the key Casual Wear fabrics, their properties and their history.
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May 22, 2025
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Textile Glossary : Shirting Motifs
A focus on the key shirting motifs and their history.
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April 29, 2025
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Textile Glossary: Shirting Fabrics
A focus on the key shirting fabrics, their properties and their history.
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April 4, 2025
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The secrets of your textiles: download the PV Textile Glossary from 11 February
The first chapter of the PV Textile Glossary is dedicated to fibers.
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January 23, 2025
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Textile Glossary: Woolens
History Until synthetic fibers emerged in the mid-20th century, transforming textile practices, the word ‘coat’ was used exclusively to indicate an...
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November 25, 2024
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Technical Glossary: The Language of Denim
Denim isn’t just a fabric; it’s a universal icon steeped in history and cultural heritage. What sets the cloth apart is its ability to adapt to...
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October 7, 2025
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Textile Glossary: Suiting Motifs
Tailoring is the source of many creative motifs with their roots in traditional yarn-dyed fabrics. These designs are collectively referred to as...
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October 24, 2024
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Textile Glossary: Suiting Fabrics
TAILORING, also known as suitings, is a family of textiles used for men’s and women’s suits, three-piece suits, jackets, pants, skirts and dresses....
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September 13, 2024
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Textile Glossary: Compound Weaves
Compound weaves are fabric structures with an extra set of warp yarns or weft yarns, or both. Their purpose is to enhance performance, or add...
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July 11, 2024
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Textile Glossary: Basic weaves
A weave is a method of interlacing warp yarns and weft yarns. There are three basic weaves: plain, twill and satin. Plain weave: This is achieved by...
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May 23, 2024
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Textile Glossary : Weaving
A weave is a right-angle structure, created by crossing two threads – a warp thread and a weft thread. Origins The oldest examples of weaving trace...
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April 29, 2024
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Textile Glossary: Yarns
The raw material for yarn comes in one of two forms: filaments or staple fibers. 1. Filaments A filament is a fine fiber long enough to form a...
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April 2, 2024
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Synthetic fibers
They are derived primarily from fossil resources and obtained through a process of chemical synthesis.
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January 22, 2024
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Artificial fibers
Artificial fibers are part of the broad family of chemical fibers. Unlike natural fibers, they are manmade from renewable natural resources....
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December 4, 2023
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Natural Animal Fibers
Natural animal fibers, which consist mainly of keratin, take two forms: continuous fibers (filaments) and staple fibers. Staple animal fibers are...
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October 26, 2023
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Natural Plant Fibers
Natural plant fibers come from a variety of sources. They can be derived from fruit, from the stems or even from the leaves.
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October 2, 2023
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The Textile Glossary
A glossary of textile materials, to help identify the characteristics of each fiber, from the oldest to the most innovative.
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October 2, 2023
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