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  2. Colcha embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Colcha embroidery includes designs that resemble Mexican and Spanish embroidery worked in linen and silk. [3] However, the origins and use of the colcha stitch may be more pragmatic. It is an economical stitch. It covers a large area of the base cloth quickly, and it saves yarn, with little waste on the back of the fabric. [4]: 153–154

  3. Grazalema blanket - Wikipedia

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    A Grazalema blanket (Spanish: manta de Grazalema), also known as Grazalema cloth (Spanish: paño de Grazalema) is a type of striped brown and beige thick cloth that was particularly popular between the 17th and 19th centuries.

  4. Linen - Wikipedia

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    A linen handkerchief with drawn thread work around the edges Linen cloth recovered from Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea Flax stem, fiber, yarn and woven and knitted linen textiles. Linen (/ ˈ l ɪ n ə n /) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong and absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Because of these ...

  5. Textiles of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    New techniques and materials were introduced. Spanish modes of dress, itself a mixture of European, Asia Minor and Egyptian influences, were introduced as well. At first wool and silk fabric was imported, then sheep and silkworms as well as European foot pedal looms all by the late 1530s. By 1580, Mexico had become one of the most productive ...

  6. Holland cloth - Wikipedia

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    a plainwoven or dull-finish linen used as furniture covering a cotton or linen fabric made more or less opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish (the Holland finish) First documented in English in 1427, [ 2 ] the name originally applied to any fine, plainwoven linens imported from Europe, and particularly from the Netherlands .

  7. Linens - Wikipedia

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    A close-up of the texture of hand-woven linen fabric made in the early 20th century in the Balkans. An illustration of how to darn linen, from the Encyclopedia of Needlework (1884) by Thérèse de Dillmont. A French armoire with home linens arranged in a traditional manner, with embroidered dust covers over the shelves.