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textile

ˈtɛkˌstaɪl
WordNet
Striped silk with a design of swasticas set in a "diamond" of cloud bands in golden brown tones, with circular flowers in pink, beige, red and purple on a dark brown background at the cross points of the diamond. Oriental textiles.
Striped silk with a design of swasticas set in a "diamond" of cloud bands in golden brown tones, with circular flowers in pink, beige, red and purple on a dark brown background at the cross points of the diamond. Oriental textiles.
  1. (adj) textile
    of or relating to fabrics or fabric making "textile research"
  2. (n) textile
    artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent","woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC","she measured off enough material for a dress"
Illustrations
Web side with "layered" design of horizontal bands with ovals filled with birds and mammals, against a grid and bands with staggered irregular hexagons filled with leaves and with ovals with abstract ornamental filling over which a "network" of intersecting bands, irregular diamonds shaping. All this in green, golden yellow, brown, orange, blue and silver against a "waffled" background of purple and brown. Oriental textiles.
Web side with "layered" design of horizontal bands with ovals filled with birds and mammals, against a grid and bands with staggered irregular hexagons filled with leaves and with ovals with abstract ornamental filling over which a "network" of intersecting bands, irregular diamonds shaping. All this in green, golden yellow, brown, orange, blue and silver against a "waffled" background of purple and brown. Oriental textiles.
Printed textile with lace pattern.
Printed textile with lace pattern.
Bedspread of colorful embroidered cream-white satin with flower tendrils and insects.Pattern: fine symmetrical double tendrils, wrapped with a red garland, from which delicate winding tajes with varied flowers grow. The ascending tendrils move in an irregular pendulum line; they are branched along the outer sides; one pair, the innermost, unites with a lotus to form a pointed oval, crowned with carnation, while the outer pair branches again. The nuanced flowers in red / pink, light and dark blue, cerise / pink, white / beige, etc. are very different, eg in rosette shape, in fan shape, as fine buds or flower clusters. Scattered are small flying birds and butterflies. A narrow frame runs on three sides and a scallop edging (two-thirds gone) is sewn on at the bottom. Accompanying three straight and four brace-shaped strips (B to H). Chinese silk.
Bedspread of colorful embroidered cream-white satin with flower tendrils and insects.Pattern: fine symmetrical double tendrils, wrapped with a red garland, from which delicate winding tajes with varied flowers grow. The ascending tendrils move in an irregular pendulum line; they are branched along the outer sides; one pair, the innermost, unites with a lotus to form a pointed oval, crowned with carnation, while the outer pair branches again. The nuanced flowers in red / pink, light and dark blue, cerise / pink, white / beige, etc. are very different, eg in rosette shape, in fan shape, as fine buds or flower clusters. Scattered are small flying birds and butterflies. A narrow frame runs on three sides and a scallop edging (two-thirds gone) is sewn on at the bottom. Accompanying three straight and four brace-shaped strips (B to H). Chinese silk.
Sitsen bedspread with an asymmetrical pattern on a white ground, of thin tendrils with flowers and leaves. A large coat of arms of Amsterdam is depicted in the center and a smaller coat of arms in the corners. On a yellow plinth is a crowned oval shield with a pole and three crosses, held by two climbing lions. Oriental textiles.
Sitsen bedspread with an asymmetrical pattern on a white ground, of thin tendrils with flowers and leaves. A large coat of arms of Amsterdam is depicted in the center and a smaller coat of arms in the corners. On a yellow plinth is a crowned oval shield with a pole and three crosses, held by two climbing lions. Oriental textiles.
Plain yellow silk woven in satin weave, a narrow orange stripe woven into the selvedge. Oriental textiles.
Plain yellow silk woven in satin weave, a narrow orange stripe woven into the selvedge. Oriental textiles.
Bedspread with red, dark purple and yellow palmettes and red flowers with blue hearts on a white, yellow-toned background. The bedspread is lined with stitched cotton and printed with small red flowers, outlined in black on a white background. Oriental textiles.
Bedspread with red, dark purple and yellow palmettes and red flowers with blue hearts on a white, yellow-toned background. The bedspread is lined with stitched cotton and printed with small red flowers, outlined in black on a white background. Oriental textiles.
Strip of silk damask with a design of a continuous wave pattern in horizontal bands, partly filled with a design of connected concentric circles that alternately changes direction. Colors: yellow, bright pink, green, orange-pink and blue. Oriental textiles.
Strip of silk damask with a design of a continuous wave pattern in horizontal bands, partly filled with a design of connected concentric circles that alternately changes direction. Colors: yellow, bright pink, green, orange-pink and blue. Oriental textiles.
Fragment printed velvet, design 'Florence', block print
Fragment printed velvet, design 'Florence', block print
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers
  1. Textile
    Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.
  2. Textile
    That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Annually 7 million tons of textiles and clothing is thrown out. Out of this, only 12% is used again or recycled
  1. textile
    Of or pertaining to weaving: as, the textile art.
  2. textile
    Woven, or capable of being woven; formed by weaving: as, textile fabrics; textile materials, such as wool, flax, silk, cotton.
  3. (n) textile
    A woven fabric.
  4. (n) textile
    A material suitable for weaving into a textile fabric: as, hemp and other textiles.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
It is recorded that the Babylonians were making soap around 2800 B.C. and that it was known to the Phoenicians around 600 B.C. These early references to soap and soap making were for the use of soap in the cleaning of textile fibers such as wool and cotton in preparation for weaving into cloth.
  1. (adj) Textile
    teks′til woven: capable of being woven
  2. (n) Textile
    a woven fabric
Quotations
Walter Benjamin
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. textilis, fr. texere, to weave: cf. F. textile,. See Text

Usage in the news

3form has introduced Gecko , an adhesive textile that adheres to glass surfaces. todaysfacilitymanager.com

St Louis will host the annual Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) of the Textile Rental Services Association of America (TRSA), a free, members-only event that TRSA promises will include opportunities for education, training and networking. americanlaundrynews.com

Mediatex Textiles Tested in line with the Oeko-Tex Standard 100. screenweb.com

Layering doesn't only happen with textiles, of course. online.wsj.com

JLA Home Fabrics has signed a lease for showroom space in the Market Square Textile Tower on the sixth floor that will open for Showtime in December. hometextilestoday.com

He's president and CEO of Vestagen Technical Textiles, he just finished writing his second book and he is a devoted family man with four kids. aterskimag.com

ATLANTA– Messe Frankfurt has commenced a campaign on Twitter to focus tweets on textile topics every Tuesday. hfnmag.com

We love these ikat inspired napkins from Wolfum, a textile company based in Los Angeles. more.com

Roth had sold his business to a newly named company, Roth & Tomkins Textiles. hometextilestoday.com

Mutli-category home textiles supplier Ellery Homestyles is preparing to open an office in Bentonville, Ark. hometextilestoday.com

It manufactures wool textiles, for use in blankets, men's and women's clothing and upholstery. camaspostrecord.com

Offering a higher set of performances, as well as a durable adhesion onto standard and new textiles, is a way to support safety systems manufacturers in designing better airbags , while achieving cost reduction through innovation. coatingsworld.com

How some textile mills avoided Armageddon . msnbc.msn.com

Textile artistry opens month of events. chronicle.augusta.com

Textile exhibit BIG is bold and beautiful at the ROM. thestar.com

Usage in scientific papers

The first application concerns the structure of paper and nonwoven textiles, in the manufacture of which fibres are deposited on a continuous filter bed and form a near-planar bonded network.
Information geometric neighbourhoods of randomness and geometry of the McKay bivariate gamma 3-manifold

Interestingly, as early as 1951, a similar study about textile workers found similar results: more than 60 percent found their job through social contacts.
Social Networks and Stable Matchings in the Job Market

Textile Systems for Endomorphisms and Automorphisms of the Shift, volume 114 of Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society.
Clandestine Simulations in Cellular Automata

Related problems are encountered in surface processing, for example in fiber coating and in describing the wetting and cleaning properties of textiles [17–19]; or more specifically in probing the wetting properties of nanoscale droplets by deforming them with a cylindrical AFM tip [19, 20].
Deformation of a free interface pierced by a tilted cylinder

Chocron-Benloulo I, Rodriguez J, Sanchez-Galvez, V: ‘A Symple analytical nodel to simulate textile fabric ballistic impact behavior’.
Numerical simulation of high-speed penetration-perforation dynamics in layered armor shields

Usage in literature

The system of decoration has been thought to owe much to Assyrian textile fabrics. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6" by Various

The musmons in the corral had been stripped of their wool, and this precious textile material was now to be transformed into stuff. "Abandoned" by Jules Verne

The greatest number of these are in the textile industries (almost 100,000). "The Modern Woman's Rights Movement" by Kaethe Schirmacher

The walls are finished in green textile and are left unornamented with the exception of one or two choice pictures. "Remodeled Farmhouses" by Mary H. Northend

The story probably indicates the superiority of Asia over Greece in the textile arts. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3" by Various

BAGGING is the name of the textile material which is used in the making of bags. "The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3" by Various

Soap is a very important product to every branch of the textile industry. "Soap-Making Manual" by E. G. Thomssen

The formerly flourishing textile industries are now of small importance. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8" by Various

The textile industries alone engaged 17.8 per cent. "The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection" by Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schäffle

The great bulk of the imports are textiles. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 4" by Various