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2. Brocade - Wikipedia

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   Brocade. Silk brocade fabric, Lyon, France, 1760–1770. Detail of hair-sash being brocaded on a Jakaltek Maya backstrap loom. Brocade (/ broʊˈkeɪd /) is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads. [1] The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli ...

3. Kimkhwab - Wikipedia

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   Kimkhwab (Kim-Khwab, kamkhāb, ḳamkhwāb, Kimkhwab, Hiranya, puspapata) is an ancient Indian brocade art of weaving ornate cloth with gold, silver, and silk yarns. Kinkhwab is a silk damasked cloth with an art of zar-baft (making cloth of gold), [1] The weave produces beautiful floral designs that appear embroidered on the surface of the fabric. it was also known as puspapata or cloth with ...

4. Bedford cord - Wikipedia

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   Bedford cord. Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy. The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width ...

5. Shot silk - Wikipedia

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   Shot silk (also called changeant, [1] changeable silk, changeable taffeta, cross-color, changeable fabric, [2] or "dhoop chaon" ("sunshine shade")[3]) is a fabric which is made up of silk woven from warp and weft yarns of two or more colours producing an iridescent appearance. [4] A "shot" is a single throw of the bobbin that carries the weft ...

6. Zari - Wikipedia

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   'Banarasi sari' from Varanasi (Banaras), silk and gold-wrapped silk yarn with supplementary weft brocade (zari) Zari (or jari) is an even thread traditionally made of fine gold or silver used in traditional Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani garments, especially as brocade in saris etc. [1] This thread is woven into fabrics, primarily silk, to make intricate patterns and elaborate designs of ...

7. Yard - Wikipedia

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   The yard (symbol: yd) [3][4] is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile.