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Woven

Meaning in fashion & textiles, with examples

/ˈwəʊvn/adjectiveCore term

In fashion & textiles, woven means: Made by crossing two sets of yarns at right angles on a loom, which usually gives a firm fabric with little natural stretch, like denim or poplin.

In Turkish: dokuma

How it is used

One of the two main fabric families, together with knits. Companies often have separate woven and knit departments, and people say wovens as a noun for woven garments: shirts, trousers, jackets. Woven labels are also a common trim.

Example sentences

  1. This style needs a woven fabric with at least 2% elastane for comfort.

  2. She moved from the knit team to the wovens team last spring.

Common collocations

  • woven fabric
  • woven shirt
  • woven label
  • wovens department
  • weaveThe pattern in which the lengthwise warp yarns and crosswise weft yarns are interlaced in a woven fabric, such as plain, twill or satin.
  • knitMade from yarn formed into rows of connected loops, which makes the fabric naturally stretchy, as in T-shirts, sweatshirts and jumpers.
  • fabricCloth made by weaving, knitting or bonding fibres or yarns together, used to make clothes, home textiles and many other products.
  • denimA strong cotton twill fabric, traditionally with indigo-dyed warp yarns and white weft yarns, used mainly for jeans and jackets.

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