Textile Structure
how cloth is put together
Theme

The thread: Does it hang together

A draft can look entirely reasonable on point paper and describe cloth that falls into two layers, or has threads lying loose on the surface. The failure is invisible and the test is exact.
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Does it hang together

A draft can interlace everywhere, have short floats, and describe two fabrics lying on each other rather than one. Nothing about the drawing says so, and the test that does is exact.

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Ravel, fray and run

Cut a woven cloth and one thread comes loose. Break one loop in a knit and every loop above it follows. The two structures fail in opposite ways, and the reason is topology rather than strength.

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