Woven fabrics

right|thumb|150px|Madapollam's linen weave pattern.

natural animal fiber, soft wool of the camel

thumb|Wadmal army jacket from the Hälsinge Regiment. thumb|Girls' wadmal dress right|thumb|Faroese postage stamp with a picture of a Viking helmsman in a wadmal tunic. Wadmal (Old Norse: ; Norwegian: , 'cloth measure') is a coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, and the Orkney, Faroe and Shetland Islands from the Middle Ages into the 18th century. Wadmal was woven on the warp-weighted loom used throughout these areas of Norwegian influence, and was usually a 2/2 twill weave, although some medieval sources outside Iceland describe wadmal

thumb|Black bombazine with lace edging and beading

Ojiya-chijimi () is a Hemp that is woven mainly in Ojiya, Niigata in Japan. It is a fabric using Ramie (Ramie fabric). It was designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1955, and was registered as a Intangible cultural heritage along with Echigo-jofu in 2009.

thumb|300px|right|Cheesecloth on sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) thumb|Cheesecloth under a microscope Cheesecloth is a loose-woven gauze-like carded cotton cloth used primarily in cheesemaking and cooking. The fabric has holes large enough to quickly allow liquids (like whey) to percolate through the fabric, but small enough to retain solids like cheese curds.

Yoruba woven textile made in narrow strips on a horizontal loom

thumb|right|Silk plain weave (faille) robe, circa 1760–1765, with silk and metallic-thread supplementary weft patterning, and metallic lace trim. Faille is a type of cloth with flat ribs, often made in silk. It has a softer texture than grosgrain, with heavier and wider cords or ribs. Weft yarns are heavier than warp, and it is manufactured in plain weaving. It was especially popular in the 19th century.

technique in which ribs or ridges are produced in a woven fabric

Lampas is a type of luxury fabric created on a draw loom with a background weft (a "ground weave") typically in taffeta with supplementary wefts (the "pattern wefts") laid on top and forming a design, sometimes also with a "brocading weft". Lampas is typically woven in silk, and often has gold and silver thread enrichment. The lampas technique could be used to create complex designs, including figural and floral motifs in a range of colors. The designs could at time reflect cultural significance depending on where and for what purpose it was created. The use of lampas was not limited to clothi

thumb|1950s huipil

sturdy warp-faced left-hand twill cotton fabric

Camlet, also commonly known as camlot, camblet, or chamlet, is a woven fabric that might have originally been made of camel or goat's hair, later chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. The original form of this cloth was very valuable; the term later came to be applied to imitations of the original eastern fabric.

woven fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep

thumb|Khmer dancer wearing a samloy robab in the style of ''sampot sarobap ka'at kbal neak, or "sampot folded like the head of a naga".|alt= A sampot'' ( /sɑmpʊət/ ), a traditional dress in Cambodia. The traditional dress is similar to the dhoti of Southern Asia.).

Fabric produced using silk-like clam secretions

thumb|Woman in Cova Lima weaving tais in 2009

thumb|300px|Sails made with synthetic fibers. Sailcloth is cloth used to make sails. It can be made of a variety of materials, including natural fibers such as flax, hemp, or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, and synthetic fibers such as nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in various woven, spun, and molded textiles.

thumb|right|Bangladesh|Bangladeshi Rickshaw Puller wearing traditional Gamcha thumb|Milk salesman wearing Gamchha in Nepal Gamcha (or Gamchhā, Gāmchhā, Gāmuchhā (Odia), Gamusā (Assamese) and Angochha) is a rectangular piece of traditional coarse cotton cloth, sometimes with a checked design, worn as traditional scarf by men in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in Eastern India (including Assam), Bangladesh, as well as in eastern Terai of Nepal. It also became bit popular in other cultures of India and now in what is known as Pakistan after the Indian partition, as well as various parts of South

Madras checks is a colorful cotton fabric with a plaid pattern, originating in Chennai, India. It is yarn-dyed before weaving, lightweight and breathable, and mainly used for shirts and summer clothing.

sheer lightweight cotton fabric

rich Medieval fabric woven with gold thread or a combination of gold and silk

thumb|Detail from the "Martyr Cope" (1270), gold on red silk samite, brought from France in 1274. Uppsala Cathedral Treasury.|300px

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right|thumb|Pongee umbrella thumb| of Ushikubi, showing slubs Pongee is a type of slub-woven fabric, created by weaving with yarns that have been spun by varying the tightness of the yarn's twist at various intervals. Pongee is typically made from silk, and results in a textured, "slubbed" appearance; pongee silks range from appearing similar to satin to appearing matte and unreflective. Though pongee is typically made out of silk, it can be woven from a variety of fabrics, such as cotton, linen and wool. Originally pongee was hand woven.

tweed fabric manufactured or finished in County Donegal, Ireland.

ancient Jewish headdress

thumb|upright|Barkcloth jacket from Kalimantan, [[Indonesia]] thumb|upright|Fijian masi thumb|upright|Hawaiian kapa from the 18th century

plain or basket weave cloth for use in needlework

upright|thumb|A tea strainer made of metal mesh thumb|right|Metal screen mesh thumb|A watch with a stainless steel mesh watch band|bracelet

plain woven cotton fabric

luxury fulled, napped, and sheared woolen textile of the Middle Ages

thumb|Example of blue end-on-end cloth. Scale shown in millimeters. End-on-end (also fil-à-fil) is a type of closely woven, plain weave cloth created by the alternation of light and dark warp and weft threads, resulting in a heathered effect. The English term comes from the French "fil-à-fil", literally "thread-to-thread". It is most commonly woven from cotton or linen fibers. End-on-end is almost identical to cambric (also known as chambray), lacking only the calendering which gives cambric fabric its glossy appearance.

traditional Iban ceremonial woven textile originating from Borneo

thumb|1880s woman's paletot in black bengaline Bengaline is a rayon-and-cotton material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her August 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother.

warp-faced fabric with a pronounced horizontal ribbed or corded effect, originally of silk and later of silk blends or synthetics

thumb|Brocatelle textile fragment Brocatelle is a silk-rich fabric with heavy brocade designs. The material is characterized by satin effects standing out in relief in the warp against a flat ground. It is produced with jacquard weave by using silk, rayon, cotton, or many synthetic yarns.

hand-loomed strips made of a mixture of dyed and undyed cotton loom

dense cloth woven of thick yarn made from inferior grades of wool

fabric with warp and weft in two different colors, producing a changeable effect; most often a plain-woven silk or synthetic

thumb|Colonial American linsey-woolsey Linsey-woolsey (less often, woolsey-linsey or in Scots, '''') is a coarse twill or plain-woven fabric woven with a linen warp and a woollen weft. Similar fabrics woven with a cotton warp and woollen weft in Colonial America were also called linsey-woolsey or wincey. The name derives from a combination of lin (an archaic word for flax, whence "linen") and wool''. This textile has been known since ancient times. Known as () in Hebrew, the wearing of this fabric was forbidden in the Torah and hence Jewish law.

right|thumb|250px|A bustle made from dimity, 1881.

Barege (Barège) was a lightweight, sheer fabric matching a gauze. It was a union fabric made of silk and wool. Barege was a 19th-century fabric and originated from southwestern France. It takes its name from the town of Barèges but was mostly made in the town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

thumb|A hammam towel A peshtemal (also spelled peshtamal, pestamal, pestmal, or pestema ; from Persian~ Fa puştmāl back towel § Fa puşt back + Fa māl cleaning) is a traditional towel used in baths. A staple of Persia, with a strong influence on Ottoman culture, dating back hundreds of years, the pestemal was originally designed to help individual bathers maintain their privacy. In addition to being highly absorbent, pestemals dry faster than thicker towels.

thumb|250px|A Transport for London moquette seat covering in the 2011 Barman design, named after [[Christian Barman, who commissioned the first moquettes for the London Underground in 1936.]]

thumb| Habutai (from the Japanese , literally "feather-two-layer", also spelled habotai or habutae) is one of the most basic plain weaves of silk fabric. While it was traditionally woven in Japan, most habutai is today woven in China. It is normally a lining silk but can also be used for T-shirts, lampshades, summer blouses or very light lingerie. It is quite easy to dye and can be found in many stores.

coarse Medieval woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side; later a sturdy carpet and upholstery fabric

method of fabric printing where the warp threads are printed before weaving to create a softly blurred pattern

fireproof PTFE-impregnated glass fabric used in aerospace applications

thumb|Dupioni fabric. thumb|Dress in brown dupioni, 1940s/early 1950s Sweden. Dupioni (also referred to as douppioni, doupioni or dupion) is a plain weave silk fabric, produced using fine yarn in the warp and uneven yarn reeled from two or more entangled cocoons in the weft. This creates tightly woven yardage with a highly-lustrous surface and a crisp hand. It is similar to shantung, but slightly thicker, heavier, and with a greater slub (cross-sectional irregularity) count. In Japan a cocoon containing more than one silkworm is called .

traditional Ainu costume

durable woven textile with a warp-wise rib

Crimplene is a texturised continuous fibre launched in 1959, produced by modifying Terylene. The patent was taken out by Mario Nava of Chesline and Crepes Ltd of Macclesfield, and sold to ICI Fibres. ICI licensed the product to various throwsters. The largest producer was William Tatton of Leek, and the Golborne factory was at one time capable of taking the entire output of ICI's Wilton production of Terylene.

A (French for "blister" or "blistered"), occasionally abbreviated clox, is a cloth with a raised woven pattern and a puckered or quilted look. The surface is made up of small irregularly raised figures formed by the woven structure. The Americanized spelling is "cloky".

Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard".

thumb|Woman in dress made of Siamoise ("Siamese") textile, 1687 Siamoise is a term for various woven fabric varieties, usually cotton and linen blends, with patterns such as checks and stripes. Siamoise was so named because it imitated clothing worn by 17th century Siamese ambassadors.

thumb|right|300px| fabric, along with and , the three main varieties of in Japan|alt=A display table showing a number of different indigo-dyed fabrics, some stacked on wooden stands in roll-form, others displayed flat in front of the rolls, and some hanging on small stands. is the Japanese term for fabric that has been woven with fibers dyed specifically to create patterns and images in the fabric, typically referring to fabrics produced within Japan using this technique. It is a form of ikat dyeing, traditionally resulting in patterns characterized by their blurred or brushed appearance.

fabric woven on a dobby loom, characterized by small geometric patterns

thumb|Detail of a Christian Dior Haute Couture wool barathea two-piece dress from Fall/Winter 1948. Barathea, sometimes spelled barrathea, is a soft fabric with a broken twill weft rib, giving a surface that is lightly pebbled or ribbed, with the effect of a twill running both left and right. Originally developed as a cloth for mourning clothes in the 1840s, it took several decades to become popular for other purposes, due to its association with bereavement.