Fabric vs. Nankeen

A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.

Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanking (modern Nanjing), China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.The term blue nankeen describes hand-printed fabric of artistic refinement and primitive simplicity, which originated on the Silk Road over three thousand years ago. Hand-carved stencils, originally made from wood but now from heavy paper, are prepared and a mix of soybean flour and slaked lime is applied through the openings of the stencil onto the 100% cotton fabric.

The texture or quality of such cloth.

A sturdy yellow or buff cotton cloth.

A complex underlying structure

nankeens Trousers made of this cloth.

A method or style of construction.

Nankeen A Chinese porcelain with a blue-and-white pattern.

A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.

A physical structure; a building.

A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

An edifice or building.

An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

Trousers made of nankeen.

(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color

The physical material of a building.

The framework underlying a structure.

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

The texture of a cloth.

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

(transitive) To cover with fabric.

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

That which is fabricated

Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, whether vegetable, animal, or synthetic; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics; made of a fabric that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

The act of constructing; construction.

Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

To frame; to build; to construct.

artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;

the underlying structure;