Glossary of Textile Manufacturing - G

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Gabardine

Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric often used to make suits, overcoats and trousers. The fibre used to make the fabric is traditionally worsted (a woolen yarn), but may also be cotton, synthetic or mixed. The fabric is smooth on one side and has a diagonally ribbed surface on the other.

Gauge

A gauge is a set number of rows per inch (in knitting) or the thread-count of a woven fabric that helps the knitter determine whether they have the right size knitting needles or a weaver if the cloth is tight enough.

Gante

Gante is a cloth made from cotton or tow warp and jute weft. It is largely used for bags for sugar and similar material, and has the appearance of a fine hessian cloth.

Gauze

A very light, sheer, fine woven fabric.

Genova velvet

A type of velvet where in Jacquard patterns are woven into the ground fabric and where the pile is made of a combination of cut and uncut (loop) pile. This fabric is also known as Venetian velvet, or more generally, as épinglé velvet. In the actual terminology of furnishing fabrics it is mostly named with its French name "velours de Gênes".

This kind of fabric is made on a wire loom or épinglé loom.

Geotextile

A geotextile is a synthetic permeable textile.

Gingham

Gingham is a fabric made from dyed cotton yarn.

Glass fiber (fibre)

Fiberglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is widely used in the manufacture of insulation and textiles.

Gossamer

A gossamer is a very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, popular for white wedding dresses and decorations.

Grogram

Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or with mohair and often stiffened with gum.