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Percale

Percale is a type of plain weave, or two-shaft weaving, characterised by its dense and even weave structure. It is woven with the same number of threads in the warp as the weft, giving it a smooth and even surface. …

Basket Weave

Basket weaving is a technique that creates a pattern similar to a basket. The technique involves braiding two or more warp threads as a unit with one or more weft threads. The weaving technique produces a regular and repeating pattern …

Oxford

Oxford fabric is a 2 x 1 basket weave. It is a warp and weft technique in which two threads in the warp are woven together with one thread in the weft. Usually, the two warp threads are as …

Microplastic

Microplastics are tiny fibres, fragments or particles of plastic smaller than 5 millimetres(0,197″). They can form through the breakdown of larger products or by starting out as tiny particles.
When released, these tiny particles can end up in wastewater and …

Jacquard

Jacquard is a weaving technique that can create complex patterns by raising and lowering the warp threads individually. This is done using mechanical punch cards or by controlling a computer that stores instructions on how to create the pattern. One …

Weft

Wefts, are the transverse horizontal threads, which are inserted between the warp and bind the threads together into a weave.

The dark threads in the illustration are the wefts.

January 2024, TÄNKOM | Revised March 2024 RETHINK…