Textile industry

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right|250px|thumb|Wooden loom in Lesbos, Greece. thumb|A treadle-driven Hattersley & Sons Domestic Loom, built under licence in 1893, in [[Keighley, Yorkshire. This loom has a flying shuttle and automatically rolls up the woven cloth; it is not just controlled but powered by the pedals.]]

economic sector

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

industry which produces fabric

alt=Printed tartan fabric with wireless charging coils, overlaid with multiple illuminated electronic circuit boards|thumb|Screen printed e-textile coils showing wireless powering of flexible circuits through the fabric. thumb|An e-textile circuit swatch thumb|upright|A dress with red LEDs built into the fabric

any process performed after dyeing the yarn or fabric to improve the look, performance, or "hand" (feel) of the finished textile or clothing

thumb|Logo Oeko-Tex is a registered trade mark of the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile and Leather Ecology. It is used to represent the product labels and company certificates issued by the Association.

historic building in the marketplace of a European town

former system of textile export quotas

bundled used clothing shipped to Africa from wealthy countries

Texturising or texturizing is the process by which synthetic fibres are modified to change their texture - the physical appearance of the fibre. Texturising techniques can include bulking (where thermoplastic fibres are twisted, heat set and untwisted), crimping and coiling, amongst others. Texturising takes advantage of the thermoplastic nature of synthetic fibres, and uses it to set texturised features in place. 250px|thumb|Texturized yarn Fibres may be texturised to improve the fibre's insulation properties (as processes like bulking allow it to trap air better), to minimise a shiny, synthe

device that interlaces three or more strands of yarn or wire to create a variety of materials

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thumb|right|Hot air drying and tentering machine