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Textile   /tˈɛkstˌaɪl/   Listen
Textile

noun
1.
Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.  Synonyms: cloth, fabric, material.  "Woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC" , "She measured off enough material for a dress"
adjective
1.
Of or relating to fabrics or fabric making.



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"Textile" Quotes from Famous Books



... many new fibers, but it is rather a question of process than material that I had in mind. This is not a textile fabric at all, but paper. That is the most common material ...
— Equality • Edward Bellamy
... of the textile industries in this country are fashioned after methods peculiarly adapted to the purposes for which they are designed, particularly as regards the most convenient placing of machinery, the distribution ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
... knows no astronomy,''—we are likely to say that the sentence is silly; another might say that it is paradoxical and a third that it is quite correct, for what is missing is merely the proposition that the grade of culture made possible by astronomy is such as to require textile proficiency also. "In conversation the simplest case of skipping is where the conclusion is drawn directly from the minor premise. But many other inferences are omitted, as in the case of real thinking. In giving information ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... tells us the other weavers of textile materials confirm. Each has his favourite flora, which hardly ever varies when the plant is easily accessible and which can be supplemented by plenty of others when it is not. The bird's botany would be worth ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre
... represents Varied Industries. (p. 138.) The central figure is Agriculture, the basic food-supplying industry. On one side is the Builder, on the other the Common Workman. Beyond them are Commerce holding the figurehead of a ship, and a woman with a spindle, a lamb before her, typifying the textile industries. ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber


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