Fabric Index
1,2. Garbadine
(1) Cotton garbadine, and (2) wool garbadine. It is a tightly woven twill material. The cotton is much coarser twill than the wool but is usually finished with high sheen. It is made in many different fibers and blends.
3. Wool crepe
This is a lightweight fabric made of many fibers. It has a crinkled surface obtained either by the use of weave, embossing, hard-twist yarns, or chemical treatment.
4. Chinchilla
Chinchilla is a heavy, twill weave coating. It has a napped surface that is rolled into little tufts or nubs.
5. Fleece
This is the name of a fabric that has a deep fleece-like, napped surface. It may be a pile fabric, or a napping process may obtain the fleece effect.
6. Flannel
Flannel is a fabric of medium weight, in plain or twill weaves, that has a slightly napped surface.
7. Boucle
A fabric woven or knitted with looped or knotted surface. It usually has a spongy effect and feel.
8. Duvetyn type coating
Duvetyn is twill weave fabric with a fine, velvety, napped surface that is raised to hide the weave.
9. Wool ottoman
The rib of ottoman is widely spaced and in contrasting color.
10. Zibeline
Wool fabric made in coating and suiting weights. The nap is long and lustrous, running in one direction. Often camel’s hair or mohair shows in the nap of zibeline.
11. Wool broadcloth
This is a very different fabric from cotton or silk broadcloth. It has a glossy finish with a nap running in one direction. It can be made either of wool or worsted.
12. Cashmere
This fabric is made fro extremely soft hair of the Kashmir goat from India. Similar goats are now raised in this country. Cashmere is most often used in combinations with sheep’s wool.
13. Terry Cloth
Terry cloth is cotton-toweling fabric with loops on one or both sides. It is water absorbent, and comes in many colors and designs.
14. Chambray
A plain cotton fabric woven with a colored warp and white filler. It also comes in stripes, check, and dobby design.
15. Dotted Swiss
A sheer, crisp, cotton fabric with a woven clipped dot. It comes with a contrasting dot or in the same color.
16. Organdy
This is a sheer, light, wiry fabric. It must be treated so that it will keep a crisp finish permanently.
17. Surah
A soft lustrous fabric with twill weaves. It is usually silk, but also comes in other fibers. May be plain, stripes, or prints.
18. Dobby
A small geometric design is woven into the cloth. It is similar to, but simpler than a jacquard weave.
19. Bedford cord
Bedford cord is a heavy cotton or woolen fabric with a cord or ridge running lengthwise through it.
20. Striped cotton
This fabric is a novelty Bedford in striped cotton.
21. Bastiste
The fabric is named for Jean batiste, a linen weaver. It is a sheer, very fine, lightweight fabric.
22. Gingham
Plain weave cotton fabric. Gingham is woven into checks, stripes, and plaids of two or more colors. Gingham us also made in companion checks of different sizes. They can be used together or separately.
23.Sateen
This is a cotton cloth made in a satin weave. It is often treated for high luster and crease-resistance.
24. Broadcloth
Closely woven fabric with a fine cross rib and a lustrous finish. This is a sheer in cotton and blends.
- Cotton Broadcloth: This is an all cotton fabric in a heavier texture than sheer broadcloth. It has a soft hand and a good luster.
25. Birdseye pique
It is a fabric with a fabric with a diamond-shaped motif. It also comes with a lengthwise wale or a waffle weave, honeycomb, and a large diamond pattern called a bulls eye. Birdseye pique is usually a cotton, but is can be made from other fibers.
26. Seersuker
A cloth with a woven stripe created by weaving some of the warp threads slack and others tight. Seersucker comes in stripes, plaids, checks, and in many colors.
27. Voile
A lightweight sheer in a plain weaves, with a crisp feel. It comes in beautiful colors and prints.
28.Plain Plisse
Fine cotton fabric, soft or crisp hand, with a striped or all over blister effect, created by weaving or chemical process
-Printed Plisse: Printed Plisse is used for sleepwear. Made in colors and prints
29. Linen
Linen is a strong, lustrous fabric made of smooth-surfaced flax fibers. It is available in plain weaves, from handkerchief linen, which is sheer, to heavy suiting.
-Embroidered linen: Linen is made from flax fibers. It is used particularly for embroidery, and is a very beautiful fabric.
-Linen damask: This fabric is often used in tablecloths. IT is also now being made in beautiful textures for dresses.
-Silk Linen: It is actually a silk, woven to resemble a linen weave.
30. Percale
Printed or plain cotton sheeting fabric. A good construction is 80x80. It usually has a smooth, dull finish.
31.Cotton crepe
Cotton crepe is a fabric with a crinkly or pebbly surface. It comes in many weights and fibers.
32.Pongee
Plain-woven fabric from raw silk comes in light and medium weight. Its natural color is a light tan, but it is now printed and dyed in many lovely colors.
33. Lawn
Lightweight cotton cloth, often given a crease-resistant finish. It can be dyed or printed, and novelty types made with a sateen stripe or crinkled to look like plisse.
34. Printed georgette crepe
A sheer, that is heavier than chiffon, made of twisted yarn both ways of the weave to give a pebbly, crepe effect.
35.Velveteen
This is a cotton pile fabric that looks like velvet but, unlike velvet, is woven singly. It comes in twill back or plain weave. Twill back is better and holds the pile more firmly.
36. Sailcloth
A very strong, firmly woven cotton canvas. Originally, a heavier fabric used for sails. Now made in a weight suitable for apparel.
37. Corduroy
A cut pile fabric that comes in a wide or narrow wale. It has a plain weave or twill back. Twill back is better quality. It is usually all cotton, though new types are made with a spun rayon pile and cotton back.
-Novelty corduroy: This corduroy is made to look like Birdseye weaves.
-Pinwale corduroy: Pinwale corduroy has an extremely fine wale, with a soft hand. Now made in some types that are washable, require little ironing.
38. Madras
Fine cotton shirting with a woven design. Fabrics can be dobbies, jacquard stripes, fine cord, or checks, or coarse, homespun cotton plaids in colorful patterns. Made in India.
39. Denim
Washable, strong-twilled cotton cloth, either dyed in the piece or woven with a colored warp and white filler.
-Striped denim: Denim is made in plaids, dobbies, and stripes, can be printed, or given iridescence by weaving two colors.
40. Poplin
Poplin is often waterproofed and treated for wind resistance.
41.Duck
A tightly woven cotton or linen fabric. It is similar to canvas and can have a plain or ribbed weave. Made in various weights.
42. Twill
Heavy cotton with a diagonal weave is usually called twill. Actually, twill is a weave with a diagonal rid, or lines. Twills are made from many fibers and combinations. The best-known types are flannels, serges, gabardines, and surahs.
43. Challis
A soft, supple, very light, plain woven fabric made from worsted, wool, rayon staple, cotton, and blends. Printed in small florals, Persian, or cravat prints that are identified with challis.
44.Wool Jersey
Wool jersey comes in tubular form, and is very economical to cut.
-Cotton Jersey: This is a heavier knit, and is made up in heavier designs.
45.Bengaline
A fabric similar to faille, only much heavier, with a definite crosswise rib. Used for dresses, coats, trimmings and draperies.
46. Rayon taffeta
A fine, plain weave fabric, smooth on both sides, usually with a sheen to the surface. Made originally of silk, now it is made of rayon and from blends of several fabrics.
47.Silk broadcloth
Silk broadcloth is a light, thin fabric with a lustrous surface. It is very closely woven, with fine embedded ribs.
48. Tussah
This is a term for uncultivated silk. The filaments are coarser, stronger and more irregular. Fabrics can be made wholly or partly of wild silk.
49. Honan
Wild silk of the finest quality. It comes from Honan, China and is made in pongee type fabric. Its now imitated elsewhere.
50. Shantung
Plain-woven fabric originally made on hand looms from wild silk. It has a rough, nubby surface due to imperfections in the yarn.
51. Crepe
Name applied to fabrics with a crinkled or puckered surface, obtained by various combinations of twisted yarn.
52. Antique Taffeta
Crisp taffeta madder of a slubbed yarn, simulating types made in ancient times before silk was finely cultivated.
53. Peau de peche
This is a soft, closely woven dress silk with a slightly roughened surface, similar to the skin of a peach.
54.Organza
Organza is a wiry, sheer fabric, which is softer than organdy but of the same plain weave.
55.Peau de soie
Very soft dress silk, with a satiny surface and a mellow luster.
56. Faille Taffeta
It is a fabric with flat horizontal ribs, finer than bengaline.
57. China silk
Very lightweight, soft fine silk, used especially for lining dresses, skirts, and suits. It is also used in scarfs.
58. Tissue Taffeta
Is a very sheer type of silk taffeta
59. Net
This is a mesh fabric, ranging from tulle to fishing net.
60. Brocade with gold thread
This is an unusual fabric, since the background is an ottoman weave. It is woven with a tarnish proof gold thread.
61. Barathea
Closely woven fabric with a characteristic pebbly weaves. It is used for dresses, neckties, and lightweight suits.
62. Brocade
This is rich jacquard fabric with an allover interwoven design. The pattern is emphasized by contrasting surfaces and colors. The background may be satin or twill.
63. Velvet
This fabric has a short-cut pile to give it a smooth, rich, luxurious surface, soft to the touch.
64. Ottoman
Heavier fabric with a definite rib. The rib extends from selvage to selvage. Similar to bengaline but with a heavier rib.
65.Boucle brocade
This is a new fabric with the design worked in a boucle weave.
66. Slipper Satin
Strong, compact, durable satin of heavy quality. Made of silk, rayon, acetate, synthetics or a mixture of fibers. On slipper satin the back is sometimes of cotton.
67.Lame
Fabric woven of metal thread made of non-tarnish able yarns.
68.Moire
Moire is a finish giving a waved or watered effect to a fabric, usually a corded silk, rayon, or blend.
69.Reversible brocade
Brocade woven in metal thread and colors that can be used on either side. It can emphasize the colored or metallic side.
70.Chiffon
A very light, soft, sheer fabric in a plain weave. Chiffon is made of silk, rayon, wool, cotton, and blends.
71. Jacquard
A type of loom, which makes intricate patterns, such as brocades and damasks. Smaller, intricate patterns are called jacquards.
72. Silk satin
A type of weave with yarns floated to the surface to give a lustrous face. It is made of silk and other fibers, and fiber blends. It is made in many varieties, and is also elasticized for use in making bathing suits.
73. Silk damask
A glossy, patterned satiny jacquard weave, Silk damask is similar to brocade but is more flat.
74. Lace
Made from a network of threads that form a decorative design. It is made by hand or/and machine from silk, rayon, cotton, nylon, or a combination of yarn. It Is made to look delicate but in fact is quite sturdy with easy handling.
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