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It is only semi-opaque, with a crude matt finish and aplainweave.
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This cloth is a nurses' uniform cloth and is woven with aplainweavefrom cotton and rayon blended yarns.
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Aplainweavewas preferred as the added skill and time required to make more complex weaves kept them from common use.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The textile ofplainweaveis represented by a wide variety of stripes, and more rarely by geometrical patterns such as triangles and diamonds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Silkplainweavewith supplementary weft patterning bound inplainweave(lampas).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A balancedplainweavecan be identified by its checkerboard-like appearance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The four main weaves for shirtings areplainweave, oxford, twill and satin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, for the main types of textiles,plainweave, twill, or satin weave, there is little difference between the ancient and modern methods.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The women's skirts, the "lau", are aplainweavewith a variety of decorative techniques added.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Twill fabrics technically have a front and a back side, unlikeplainweave, whose two sides are the same.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Grosgrain is aplainweavecorded fabric, with heavier cords than in poplin but lighter than in faille.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as denim, in beingplainweaverather than twill weave.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is aplainweave, with weft figuring designs done on principles of tapestry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Various weaving patterns such asplainweave, twill weave, or sateen weave, increase or decrease the amount of space between individual fibers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historically it was done onplainweavefabric.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Broadcloth, poplin and end-on-end are variations of theplainweave.
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