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  2. Pattern (sewing) - Wikipedia

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    Fitting a nettle/canvas-fabric on a dress form. In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper, and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be ...

  3. Knitted fabric - Wikipedia

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    Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting, the process of inter-looping of yarns or inter-meshing of loops. Its properties are distinct from woven fabric in that it is more flexible and can be more readily constructed into smaller pieces, making it ideal for socks and hats.

  4. Fabric computing - Wikipedia

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    While the term "fabric" has also been used in association with storage area networks and with switched fabric networking, the introduction of compute resources provides a complete "unified" computing system. [citation needed] Other terms used to describe such fabrics include "unified fabric", [4] "data center fabric" and "unified data center ...

  5. Woven fabric - Wikipedia

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    Technically, a woven fabric is any fabric made by interlacing two or more threads at right angles to one another. [1] Woven fabrics can be made of natural fibers, synthetic fibers, or a mixture of both, such as cotton and polyester . Woven fabrics are used for clothing, garments, decorations, furniture, carpets and other uses.

  6. Technological singularity - Wikipedia

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    The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge – first in 1983 (in an article that claimed that once humans create intelligences greater than their own, there will be a technological and social transition similar in some sense to "the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole", [8]) and later in his 1993 essay ...

  7. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Scraps of wool fabric from the Bronze Age and Iron Age have been found in the salt mines of Hallstatt Austria. The fabric scraps were residuals of rags used in the mines. The rags, in turn were scraps from worn out garments. The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time.

  8. Fjällräven - Wikipedia

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    Fjällräven (Swedish for arctic fox; pronounced [ˈfjɛ̂lːˌrɛːvɛn]) is a Swedish brand specialising in outdoor equipment—mostly clothing and luggage.. The company was founded in 1960 by Åke Nordin (1936–2013) from Örnsköldsvik in Northern Sweden.

  9. Fabric of Saint Peter - Wikipedia

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    The Fabric of Saint Peter (Latin: Reverenda Fabrica Sancti Petri, Italian: Fabbrica di San Pietro) is a Catholic institution responsible for the conservation and maintenance of St. Peter's Basilica and exercising vigilance over its sacred character and the organization of visitors.