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How fabric is a structure not a picture
Cloth is an arrangement of yarns or fibers, and the print is only what sits on that machine.
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From the opening
Fabric is a structure of fibers spun into yarn and then interlaced, looped, or matted. The picture on a shirt is secondary, and what the cloth can do comes from how the yarns are arranged and from what the fibers are. The opening covers weave is an over-under grid, knit is a chain of loops, and felt is a locked mat of fibers.
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Inside
- Weave is an over-under grid
- Knit is a chain of loops
- Felt is a locked mat of fibers
- Color is not the structure
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Woven, knitted, and nonwoven fabric structures
- Grain and bias behavior in a woven cloth