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textiles

(ˈtɛkstaɪlz)
pl n
(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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A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics.
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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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###Ameer Enterprises###10.3, D59###Genius Textiles Network###10.0, C29
Exhibitors from Pakistan at Heimtextil 2019
tariffs on textiles. In return for his cooperation in the war on terror, Musharraf wanted free trade in T-shirts.
I, T-Shirt: a T-shirt's journey unravels the costs of protectionism
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.
Remnants of the past: high-tech analyses of ancient textiles yield clues to cultures
Duties: Design and create patterns, and motifs for all forms of textiles and various surfaces used in home furnishings, fashion and theater.
Queen of her craft
###Bismillah Textiles Ltd.###10.3 Stand A79###Ihsan Cotton Products (Pvt.) Ltd.###10.1 Stand E54
Exhibitors from Pakistan at Heimtextil 2018
Abdur Rahman Corporation (PVT) Ltd.###Ayoob Textile Mills Ltd.###Genius Textiles Network
List of Pakistani Exhibitors at Heimtextil 2012
Mian Textile Industries Ltd.[DEFAULTER SEGMENT] 2.89
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Dar-es-Salam Textile Mills Ltd[DEFAULTER SEGMENT] 3.8
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