thin silk or linen

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• Silk in the Indian subcontinent — Silk in India as elsewhere, is an item of luxury.For more than four thousand years, this cloth produced from the cocoons of caterpillers, has been associated with crowned heads and riches throughout the different ages. As a designer once said… …   Wikipedia

• Silk — This article is about a natural fiber and the textile woven from it. For other uses, see Silk (disambiguation). Four of the most important domesticated silk worms, together with their adult moth forms, Meyers Konversations Lexikon (1885 1892)… …   Wikipedia

• sendal — thin silk or linen Fabric and Cloth …   Phrontistery dictionary

• textile — /teks tuyl, til/, n. 1. any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. 2. a material, as a fiber or yarn, used in or suitable for weaving: Glass can be used as a textile. adj. 3. woven or capable of being woven: textile fabrics. 4 …   Universalium

• Glossary of textile manufacturing — For terms specifically related to sewing, see Glossary of sewing terms. For terms specifically related to dyeing, see Glossary of dyeing terms. The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first… …   Wikipedia

• Undergarment — Underwear redirects here. For other uses, see Underwear (disambiguation). Women s panties or knickers …   Wikipedia

• Drugget — Druggett or drugget is a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self coloured or printed one side . Jonathan Swift refers to being in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard . [1] Formerly, a drugget was a sort of cheap stuff, very thin and… …   Wikipedia

• Altar (Catholicism) — High altar of St. Michael s Church, Munich. In the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, the altar is where the Sacrifice of the Mass is offered. Mass may sometimes be celebrated outside a sacred place, but never without an altar, or at least an… …   Wikipedia

• wrap — /rap/, v., wrapped or wrapt, wrapping, n., adj. v.t. 1. to enclose in something wound or folded about (often fol. by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf. 2. to enclose and make fast (an article, bundle, etc.) within a covering of paper or the… …   Universalium

• Chemise — For the wall in fortification, see Chemise (wall). Fashionable young man in early 16th century Germany showed a lot of fine linen in a studied negligee. This unidentified gentleman has a band of smocking round the collar of his shift. (Portrait… …   Wikipedia

• thang-ka — ▪ Buddhist art also spelled  Tanka        (Tibetan: “something rolled up”), Tibetan religious painting or drawing on woven material, usually cotton; it has a bamboo cane rod pasted on the bottom edge by which it can be rolled up.       Thang kas… …   Universalium