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  2. Aesthetics (textile) - Wikipedia

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    Drape (draping or fabric drape) is the property of different textile materials how they fold, fall, or hang along with a three-dimensional body. Draping depends upon the fiber characteristics and the flexibility, looseness, and softness of the material. Drape finishes can also alter the draping properties of clothes. [2] [5]

  3. Drapery - Wikipedia

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    Drape. Drape (draping or fabric drape) is the property of different textile materials how they fold, fall, or hang over a three-dimensional body. Draping depends upon the fiber characteristics and the flexibility, looseness, and softness of the material. [2][3] Draped garments follow the form of the human body beneath them. [4][5]

  4. Draped garment - Wikipedia

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    Draped garment. Buddha in draped clothing. A draped garment (draped dress) [1] is a garment that is made of a single piece of cloth that is draped around the body; drapes are not cut away or stitched as in a tailored garment. Drapes can be held to the body by means of knotting, pinning, fibulae, clasps, sashes, belts, tying drawstrings, or just ...

  5. Theater drapes and stage curtains - Wikipedia

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    Different types of curtains. Theater drapes and stage curtains are large pieces of cloth that are designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators. They are designed for a variety of specific purposes, moving in different ways (if at all) and constructed from various fabrics. Many are made from black or other darkly colored, light ...

  6. Textile arts - Wikipedia

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    Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization. [1][2] The methods and materials used to make them have expanded enormously, while the functions of textiles have remained the same ...

  7. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time. The wool had a large amount of kemp (guard hairs). The weaves, however, included both simple plain weave (i.e., tabby weave) and more sophisticated twill weave. Twill woven fabrics have better drape than plain woven ones.

  8. Knitting - Wikipedia

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    Knitting. Woman knitting. Video description of knitting a sock and the two basic stitches: knit and purl. Knitting is a method for production of textile fabrics by interlacing yarn loops with loops of the same or other yarns. It is used to create many types of garments. Knitting may be done by hand or by machine.

  9. Curtain - Wikipedia

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    Curtain. A curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. [1] A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theatre that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background. [1]