Fibers

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for needlework. Yarn can be made of a number of natural or synthetic materials, and comes in a variety of colors and thicknesses (referred to as "weights"). Although yarn may be dyed different colour

thumb|140px|The repeating unit within polyethylene in the most stable staggered conformation

thumb|upright=1.2|Person knitting thumb|upright=1.2|Video description of knitting a sock and the two basic stitches: knit and purl

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

thumb|upright=1.35|Dyed wool being carded with a 1949 Tatham carding machine at Jamieson Mill, Sandness, [[Shetland, Scotland]] thumb|Cotton carder (known as dhunuri or lep wallah) in [[Howrah, Kolkata, India]] thumb|William Tatham Breaker carder. In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with "card clothing", a firm flexible material embedded with metal pins. It breaks up loc

thumb|upright=1.35|Twine showing component strands Twine is a strong thread, light string or cord composed of string in which two or more thinner strands are twisted, and then twisted together (plied). The strands are plied in the opposite direction to that of their twist, which adds torsional strength to the cord and keeps it from unravelling. This process is sometimes called reverse wrap. The same technique used for making twine is also used to make thread, which is thinner, yarn, and rope, which is stronger and thicker, generally with three or more strands.

thumb|right|Mercerized cotton yarn reels thumb|right|Spool of a two-ply mercerized cotton thread with a polyester core.

ground tissue is one of three main tissue systems: protective, ground, and vascular, each tissue system has a different role and functionality inside plant tissues

coarse, broken fibers, removed during processing of bast fibers, used as padding, ropemaking, or to make short-staple yarns

any fibre derived from natural sources such as plants, animals or minerals

plant grown for fiber

common name of visible accumulations of textile fibers and other materials

thumb|Example of a cellulose nanofiber network. Nanofibers are fibers with diameters in the nanometer range (typically, between 1 nm and 1 μm). Nanofibers can be generated from different polymers and hence have different physical properties and application potentials. Examples of natural polymers include collagen, cellulose, silk fibroin, keratin, gelatin and polysaccharides such as chitosan and alginate. Examples of synthetic polymers include poly(lactic acid) (PLA), polycaprolactone (PCL), polyurethane (PU), poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalera

Packing material

right|250px|thumb|'Banarasi sari' from [[Varanasi (Banaras), silk and gold-wrapped silk yarn with supplementary weft brocade (zari)]]

thumb|upright=1.25|Sample of sambe Sambe (), or hemp fiber, is a traditional fiber for Korean clothing. An increasingly rare practice, it has been made a national treasure, and specific individuals with the ability were designated intangible cultural assets. Sambe was the primary textile fiber used in clothing for commoners/sangmin prior to the introduction of cotton to Korea in the late 15th century. A particularly fine variety is andongpo from Andong, North Gyeongsang Province.

natural or regenerated fibers containing cellulose

thumb|399x399px|Hierarchical structure of hair in the cortex and cuticle, highlighting the scale which defines fibrils.

Fabric produced using silk-like clam secretions

bundle or web of fiber used to spin yarn

labour-intensive textile

thumb | right | Schematic cross-section of a microfibril A microfibril is a very fine fibril, or fiber-like strand, consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose. It is usually, but not always, used as a general term in describing the structure of protein fiber, e.g. hair and sperm tail. Its most frequently observed structural pattern is the 9+2 pattern in which two central protofibrils are surrounded by nine other pairs. Cellulose inside plants is one of the examples of non-protein compounds that are using this term with the same purpose. Cellulose microfibrils are laid down in the inner surface

String is a long flexible tool made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together. String is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects. It is also used as a material to make things, such as textiles, and in arts and crafts. String is a simple tool, and its use by humans is known to have been developed tens of thousands of years ago. String may also be a component in other tools, and in devices as diverse as weapons, musical instruments, and toys. The ubiquity of string as a tool has led to conceptual and scientific uses of th

thumb|right|Grey and white wool roving

natural fiber from animals like silk and sheep

is a fabric of Echigo, Japan on national Important Cultural Properties listing in 1955, and UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list since 2009. It is made from fine bast fiber from the ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea), also called hemp, although not directly related to cannabis hemp. After it is woven on a jibata backstrap loom (), the fabric is spread on snowfields (yuki-zarashi) where ultraviolet light from the sun creates ozone and bleaches it white. Echigo-jofu has even been found in the Shōsōin repository from over 1,200 years ago. The production of Echigo-jofu is recorded in

textile fibers of similar short length which must be spun together to form yarn

synthetic fibre made from casein extracted from milk

artificially produced fiber

type of material

thumb|A Marcel Breuer chair, with Grete Reichardt's 'eisengarn' fabric, 1927.