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Fading Threads of Textile Dialects
Explore the vanished vocabulary and ancient terms linked to traditional fabric making and lost textile arts.
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  • 1. Ancient Greek garment made of cloth
  • 3. Fabric decoration sewn onto a larger piece
  • 4. Medieval woven cotton or flax fabric
  • 5. Reversible patterned fabric woven with colored threads
  • 7. Spanish word for woven fabric or cloth
  • 9. Indonesian wax-resist dyeing technique
  • 11. Old French term for hemp fabric
  • 14. Lightweight patterned cotton fabric from India
  • 16. Japanese term meaning wood grain, a textile pattern
Down
  • 2. Patterned wool fabric associated with Scottish clans
  • 6. Dyeing method using tied bundles before weaving
  • 8. Soft leather-like fabric from Latin America
  • 10. Square checked wool fabric pattern
  • 12. Luxurious medieval silk fabric
  • 13. Absorbent fabric often used for towels
  • 15. Ornate fabric with raised designs in metallic threads
  • 17. Loops or eyelets in fabric or saddle rigging
  • 18. Traditional Ghanaian woven cloth

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