Known as a "dobby border," the woven strip of a towel is not just decorative — it also has useful functions, according to ...

The earliest woolen cloths found in Scandinavia are quite rough and irregular, but cloths dating from the Roman Ages are much finer and closely woven. The more regular cloth has a plain twill weave, ...

The sarcophagus inside held a 1,600-year-old piece of fabric that ... While much of the fabric had disintegrated, the brilliant gold threads that were woven throughout it were still in excellent ...

What is thread count? Woven fabric is made of horizontal (weft) and vertical (warp) yarns. If a piece of fabric has 100 warp yarns and 100 weft yarns in a square inch, it would be a 200-thread ...

A sixth-grade social science textbook that I read described India as a piece of fabric, with countless threads coloured in a myriad of majestic shades, woven together. This metaphor holds ...