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| Bias | The diagonal grain of a fabric. |
| Bleaching | Chemical processes that remove color impurities, or spots from fibers. |
| Blend | A combination of two or more fibers that maximizes the best features of each fiber. |
| Yarn | A group of fibers twisted together to form a continuous strand. |
| Wool | The fiber that forms the coat of sheep. |
| Wicking | A fiber’s ability to draw moisture away from the body. |
| Weft yarns | Yarns that run crosswise in woven fabric. |
| Weaving | The process of interlacing one or more sets of yarns at right angles on a loom. |
| Suede | Leather with a napped surface on the flesh side. |
| Printing | The process of adding color, pattern, or design to the surface of fabrics. |
| Natural fibers | Fibers from plants or animal sources. |
| Manufactured fibers | Fibers that are man-made (synthetic) and begin as thick liquids. |
| Leather | A tough, flexible material made by preserving animal hides through a process called tanning. |
| Knitting | Constructing fabric by looping yarns together. |
| Hand | The way a fabric feels to the touch. |
| Grain | The direction of the lengthwise and crosswise yarns or threads in a woven fabric. |
| Gauge | The number of stitches, or loops, per inch in a knitted fabric. |
| Flax | The fiber that comes from the stem of a flax plant. |
| Fiber | The smallest unit in a textile fabric. |
| Fabric | Any material that is made by weaving, knitting, braiding, knotting, laminating, felting, or chemical bonding. |
| Cotton | The soft, white, downy fiber (boll) attached to the seed of a cotton plant. |
| Dyeing | A method of giving color to a fiber, yarn, fabric, or garment. |
| Fabric finishing | Applying colors, designs, or surface treatments that change the look, feel, or performance of fabrics. |
| Filament fibers | Long, continuous fibers of high quality. |
| Finishes | Treatments applied chemically or mechanically to a fabric, yarn, or fiber to change its appearance, performance, or feel. |
| Protein fibers | Fibers derived from animals or insects. |
| Silk | The fine, lustrous fiber that comes from a cocoon spun by a silkworm. |
| Satin weave | A weave that produces a smooth, shiny-surfaced fabric resulting from passing the weft yarn over and under numerous warp yarns to create long floats |
