Textile

Woven

Canvas

Modern canvas is usually made of cotton or linen, or sometimes polyvinyl chloride (PVC), although historically it was made from hemp.

Denim (牛仔布)

Flannel (法兰绒)

Knitted (针织)

Jersey

Netted (网织)

Lace (蕾丝)

Tulle (薄纱)

Pile (桩编织)

Chenille (雪尼尔)

Velvet (天鹅绒)

Figured woven (花纹编织)

Brocade

  • 锦,平纹或斜纹
  • Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads.
  • 云锦是一种中国传统提花丝织锦缎,为南京特产。因其图案绚丽、纹饰华美如天上云霞而得名,与四川蜀锦、苏州宋锦并称“中国三大名锦”。《红楼梦》中多处留下江宁织造的印记。

Damask

Damask is a reversible patterned fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Damasks are woven with one warp yarn and one weft yarn, usually with the pattern in warp-faced satin weave and the ground in weft-faced or sateen weave. Twill damasks include a twill-woven ground or pattern.

Lampas

Lampas is a type of luxury fabric with a background weft (a “ground weave”) typically in taffeta with supplementary wefts (the “pattern wefts”) laid on top and forming a design, sometimes also with a “brocading weft”. Lampas is typically woven in silk, and often has gold and silver thread enrichment.

Songket

Songket is a Tenun fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads.