Special cloth or rubber, studded with wire teeth, which serve to open up the cotton fibers, clean them of impurities, and align them in parallel order. The material is affixed to the various working...
A trapezoid-shaped window treatment usually at the top of the window. Can be pleated or shirred and is often paired with jabots. A continuous or scarf swag is drape over a pole and on the left and...
Traditionally a hooded fur coat made and used by northern natives, but now it can also be insulated with modern manmade materials like "thinsulate", and may have no fur at all, although usually...
Historically, it was made from an ordinary grade of wool that often had shoddy re-used or remanufactured wool mixed in. A twill weave where the weave is concealed. Mackinaw is heavily fulled or...
Intarsia is a textile technique that involves the intricate inlaying of different colored yarns or fabric pieces to create decorative patterns or pictorial designs. It is commonly used in knitting,...