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textiles

(ˈtɛkstaɪlz)
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(Textiles) the industries concerned with the manufacture of cloth
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textiles

plural noun materials, fabrics, cloths decorative textiles for the home
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They had lost any idea of making textiles, they could hardly make up clothes when they had material, and they were forced to plunder the continually dwindling supplies of the ruins about them for cover.
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compromise law = the American Tariff Act of 1832, which reduced tariffs on some items, but retained the high customs duties on the import of textile products}
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And so, for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting the dainty Delhi muslins, finely wrought with gold-thread palmates and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings; the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency are known in the East as "woven air," and "running water," and "evening dew"; strange figured cloths from Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks and wrought with fleurs-de-lis, birds and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades and stiff Spanish velvets; Georgian work, with its gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas, with their green-toned golds and their marvellously plumaged birds.
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Today textiles might seem an anomaly in a high-tech service economy, struggling to hold on as the winds of trade blow elsewhere.
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Today, Good and other researchers are applying high-tech methods of chemical analysis to ancient textiles and fibers to glean unique clues about past civilizations.
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Duties: Design and create patterns, and motifs for all forms of textiles and various surfaces used in home furnishings, fashion and theater.
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List of Pakistani Exhibitors at Heimtextil 2012

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