Staple (textiles)
A Staple is a fibre of a standardized length and may be of any composition, but a wool staple is an independent natural cluster of fibres not a single fibre. A continuous fibre such as natural silk or synthetic is known as a filament rather than a fibre.
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“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)