poplin
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- woven fabric
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- fabrication method
- plain weave
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|Poplin thumbnail|Poplin dress embroidered with grape vines from Aguascalientes at the [[Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City]]
Poplin, also called tabinet (or tabbinet), is a fine (but thick) wool, cotton or silk fabric with crosswise ribs that typically give a corded surface. Nowadays, the name refers to a strong material in a plain weave of any fiber or blend.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “poplin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.