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Fabrics and fibers

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Distributed data processing framework

Weaving of pliable materials to make three-dimensional artifacts

Textile produced by brocading; in general, any richly figured fabric, often incorporating metal thread

Extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric

Material fibers about 5–10 μm in diameter composed of carbon

Process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres

Fiber obtained from cashmere goats and other types of goat

Cotton twill cloth

Plant fiber from the genus Gossypium

Technique of creating lace or fabric from thread using a hook

Reversible figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibres, with a pattern formed by weaving

Warp-faced textile

Stick or staff for holding fibre to be spun

DREF friction spinning

Textile technology

Manufacturer of paintball equipment

Process of adding color to textile products like fibers, yarns, and fabrics

Art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn

Textile made from condensed fibers

Natural or synthetic substance made of long, thin filaments

Soft woven fabric

Jacquard machine

Weaving loom controlled by punched cards

Method of forming fabric from yarn

Openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand

Textile made from spun flax fiber

Loom (video game)

1990 video game

Technique of knotting cords or thick yarns to make lace or fringe

Cotton fabric of fine plain weave

Open-end spinning

Technique for spinning yarn

Rod onto which weft thread is wound for use in weaving

Method of weaving cloth in which each warp and weft thread crosses over/under every other thread

Category of polymers, in which the monomers are joined together by ester links

Mechanised loom powered by a line shaft

Process of sewing layers of fabric together to make a padded material

A method of spinning fibres

Type of fabric weave woven with a long-float binding the warp or weft yarns

Craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread

Shuttle (weaving)

Tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom

Audio compression format

Science fiction series by Hugh Howey, consisting of the books Wool, Shift, and Dust.

Traditional Malay woven fabric figured with colored or metallic supplemental wefts, originally from Malay Peninsular

Spindle (textiles)

Spike used for spinning fibers into yarn

Spinneret (polymers)

Any structure natural or artificial used to extrude polymers into fibers

Spinning (polymers)

Manufacturing of polymer fibres

Spinning (textiles)

Method of turning fiber into yarn or thread

Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread in a mechanized way

Multi-spool spinning frame

Machine used to spin cotton and other fibres

Device for spinning thread, yarn, or silk from natural or synthetic fibers

Form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom

Material produced by twining, weaving, felting, knotting, or otherwise processing natural or synthetic fibers

Textile printing

Method for applying patterns to cloth using printing techniques

Continuous strand formed of filament fiber or spun, twisted, and plied short fibers, used for sewing and needlework

Rough, unfinished woollen fabric, of a soft, open texture

Woven fabric textile weave

2013 studio album by Laura Veirs

Water-powered spinning frame

Technology for the production of textiles