Textile Terms Every Designer Should Know

Precision in fashion starts with vocabulary. The word "textile" once meant only woven cloth; today it covers fibers, yarns, fabrics, and anything made from them. When you and your factory use the same definitions, specs stop being ambiguous. Here is the core textile vocabulary, defined plainly, in the order material actually travels: from raw fiber to finished fabric.

Why the words matter

Textiles surround us from birth to death, we wear them, sleep on and under them, sit on them, and rely on them to dry us, keep us dry, and protect us from sun, fire, and infection. Textile technology is the knowledge and skill to plan, design, and make quality textile products. That work runs on shared, exact terms.