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  2. Dupioni - Wikipedia

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    Dupioni fabric. 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 ...

  3. Jo-Ann Stores - Wikipedia

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    US$1.366 billion (2021) [2] Number of employees. 23,000 (2021) Website. www.joann.com. Jo-Ann Stores, LLC, more commonly known as Jo-Ann (stylized as JOANN), is an American fabric and crafts retail company based in Hudson, Ohio. It operates the retail chains JOANN Fabrics and Crafts and Jo-Ann Etc. As of March 2020, Joann has 865 stores in 49 ...

  4. Shantung (fabric) - Wikipedia

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    Shantung (fabric) A tailored dress in pink shantung, trimmed with black shantung, 1912. Shantung is a type of silk plain weave fabric historically from the Chinese province of Shandong. [1][2] It is similar to Dupioni, but is slightly thinner and less irregular. Shantung is often used for bridal gowns. [3]

  5. List of fabrics - Wikipedia

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    Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, braided or knitted from textile fibres ... Dupioni silk; Dungarees; Dyneema; E. Ecosil; Elastane; Eolienne ...

  6. Taffeta - Wikipedia

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    Taffeta. Detail of a dress made of silk taffeta, c. 1880. Taffeta (archaically spelled taffety or taffata) is a crisp, smooth, plain woven fabric made from silk, nylon, cuprammonium rayons, acetate, or polyester. The word came into Middle English via Old French and Old Italian, which borrowed the Persian word tāfta (تافته), which means ...

  7. Slub (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Wool fabrics, such as tweeds, may also be slubbed. [1] Unspun short-fiber silk noil; see sericulture Tsumugi cloth, showing slubs. Silk is a filament fiber, and the only natural fiber type to come in filament length naturally (strands can be over 1.5 km long). However, some silk fibers are shorter in length, and must therefore be processed as ...